{"product_id":"stranger-music-selected-poems-and-songs-9780679755418","title":"Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs","description":"In the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure--and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. \u003ci\u003eStranger Music \u003c\/i\u003epresents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including the legendary songs \"Suzanne,\" \"Sisters of Mercy,\" \"Bird on a Wire,\" \"Famous Blue Raincoat,\" \"I'm Your Man,\" and \"The Future\"; selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady's Man, and eleven previously unpublished poems. This volume demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e's artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLet Us Compare Mythologies\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Favourite Gam\u003c\/i\u003ee and \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Losers\u003c\/i\u003e, and eleven books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eStranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook of Longing, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLeonard Cohen: Poems and Songs\u003c\/i\u003e. He has to date released fourteen studio albums, the most recent of which, \u003ci\u003eYou Want It Darker, \u003c\/i\u003ewas released in 2016. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011. Mr. Cohen died in 2016.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514300141842,"sku":"9780679755418","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_afd87973-0f93-4029-af7d-29bdee89131f.jpg?v=1730978604","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stranger-music-selected-poems-and-songs-9780679755418","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}