STRANGER MUSIC - Selected Poems and Songs by Cohen, Leonard - 1994

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994. 415 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection contains selections from the following books: Let Us Compare Mythologies; The Spice Box of Earth; Flowers for Hitler; Parasites of Heaven; Songs of Leonard Cohen; Selected Poems 1956 - 1968; Beautiful Losers; Songs from a Room; Songs of Love and Hate; The Energy of Slaves; New Skin for the Old Ceremony; Death of a Ladies' Man; Death of a Lady's Man; Recent Songs; Book of Mercy; Various Positions; I'm Your Man; The Future; and Uncollected Poems; followed by an index of titles and an index of first lines. The poems and stories here are far too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: When This American Woman; As the Mist Leaves No Scar; The Kite Is a Fictim; My Lady Can Sleep; Opium and Hitler; The Music Crept By Us; Cherry Orchards; A Cross Didn't Fall on Me; Suzanne; Teachers; Sisters of Mercy; Marita; The Reason I Write; A Great Feast in Quebec; Lady Midnight; Bird on the Wire; Famous Blue Raincoat; Portrait of a Girl; Dark at Four O'Clock; The Killers; Morocco; Chelsea Hotel; Paper Thin Hotel; I Knelt Beside a Stream; Another Room; I Bury My Girlfriend; Montreal; Our Lady of Solitude; You Have Sweetened Your Word; Dance Me to the End of Love; First We Take Manhattan; Paris Models; and many, many more.. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.