Stranger Music (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Leonard Cohen
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Vietnam War, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Loneliness, Songs or songwriters, Democracy
During the years between the publication of Leonard Cohen’s previous volume of collected poems and Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, his career as a poet was displaced as Cohen attained renown as a songwriter and singer. Even though Stranger Music, in addition to a large collection of song lyrics, contains selections of rhymed and unrhymed poetry, prose-poem meditations, and brief excerpts from his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers, it is unlikely to change the fact that Cohen has become known primarily as a songwriter rather than a “serious” poet.
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