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Stranger music : selected poems and songs

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    Running Time: 06:00 hrs
    Narrator: Jonathan Davis
    Publisher:
    Blackstone Publishing, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Cohen, Leonard
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2018
    Summary:

    This collection brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen's song lyrics and poetry, revealing the range and depth of Cohen's work.

    Contents:
    • Poem
    • Letter
    • Lovers
    • Prayer for Messiah
    • When This American Woman
    • These Heroics
    • Warning
    • The Fly
    • As the Mist Leaves No Scar
    • Beneath My Hands
    • I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries
    • I Long to Hold Some Lady
    • Owning Everything
    • Song
    • For Anne
    • You Have the Lovers
    • Song for Abraham Klein
    • Song to Make Me Still
    • Summer Haiku
    • My Lady Can Sleep
    • Gift
    • I Wonder How Many People in This City
    • Travel
    • I Have Two Bars of Soap
    • The Cuckold's Song
    • Morning Song
    • The Flowers That I Left in the Ground
    • A Kite Is a Victim
    • There Are Some Men
    • Isaiah
    • What I'm Doing Here
    • I Wanted to Be a Doctor
    • The Drawer's Condition on November 28, 1961
    • The Invisible Trouble
    • Opium and Hitler
    • It Uses Us!
    • Heirloom
    • All There Is to Know about Adolph Eichmann
    • Sky
    • Hitler
    • The Failure of a Secular Life
    • Wheels, Fireclouds
    • The Music Crept by Us
    • Hydra 1960
    • Queen Victoria and Me
    • I Had It for a Moment
    • The Way Back
    • On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken
    • Style
    • Disguises
    • Cherry Orchards
    • Streetcars
    • Nothing I Can Lose
    • Front Lawn
    • The Big World
    • The Lists
    • Promise
    • For E.J.P.
    • One Night I Burned
    • I See You on a Greek Mattress
    • Snow Is Falling
    • Fingerprints
    • A Cross Didn't Fall on Me
    • Suzanne
    • Teachers
    • Winter Lady
    • So Long, Marianne
    • One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
    • Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
    • Master Song
    • Sisters of Mercy
    • The Stranger Song
    • A Person Who Eats Meat
    • Marita
    • This Is for You
    • The Reason I Write
    • You Do Not Have to Love Me
    • You Live Like a God
    • Be with Me
    • What Is a Saint
    • A Great Feast in Quebec
    • Magic Is Alive
    • All Right, Edith
    • Believe Me, Edith
    • Story of Isaac
    • Lady Midnight
    • You Know Who I Am
    • Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
    • Bird on the Wire
    • Joan of Arc
    • Avalanche
    • Diamonds in the Mine
    • Famous Blue Raincoat
    • Welcome to These Lines
    • The Only Poem
    • Portrait of a Girl
    • I Perceived the Outline of Your Breasts
    • The Escape
    • I Am Dying
    • 1967
    • Ugly in My Own Eyes
    • There Are No Traitors
    • I Left a Woman
    • Invisible Tonight
    • Love Is a Fire
    • You Tore Your Shirt
    • Threat
    • Dark at Four O'Clock
    • Far from the Soil
    • My Room
    • The Road to Larissa
    • I Am Punished
    • Aquarian Age
    • The Killers
    • Purest of Occasions
    • You Went to Work
    • Any System
    • One of These Days
    • I Try to Keep in Touch
    • My Greed
    • Your Eyes
    • This Is War
    • I'd Like to Read
    • The Poems Don't Love Us Any More
    • Stay
    • Etiquette
    • A Veil
    • A Future Night
    • Morocco
    • Song for My Assassin
    • The Wrong Man
    • One
    • This Is My Voice
    • Chelsea Hotel
    • Take This Longing
    • Field Commander Cohen
    • There Is a War
    • Is This What You Wanted
    • Why Don't You Try
    • I Tried to Leave You
    • Who by Fire?
    • A Singer Must Die
    • Memories
    • Paper-Thin Hotel
    • True Love Leaves No Traces
    • I Left a Woman Waiting
    • Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On
    • I Knelt Beside a Stream
    • The Cafe
    • Commentary
    • The Cafe
    • The Change
    • Commentary
    • The Change
    • Death to This Book
    • Commentary
    • Death to This Book
    • Another Room
    • Commentary
    • Another Room
    • Death of a Lady's Man
    • My Wife and I
    • Commentary
    • My Wife and I
    • The News You Really Hate
    • Commentary
    • The News You Really Hate
    • I Decided
    • The Beetle
    • Commentary
    • The Beetle
    • The Altar
    • Commentary
    • The Altar
    • This Marriage
    • Commentary
    • This Marriage
    • Commentary II
    • This Marriage
    • The Photograph
    • It's Probably Spring
    • Commentary
    • It's Probably Spring
    • Another Family
    • The Asthmatic
    • Commentary
    • The Asthmatic
    • A Woman's Decision
    • I Bury My Girlfriend
    • A Different Drum
    • A Working Man
    • Commentary
    • A Working Man
    • The Unclean Start
    • Angelica
    • The Next One
    • A Marvellous Woman
    • The Event
    • You Have No Form
    • The Dream
    • I Like the Way You Opposed Me
    • Beside My Son
    • Commentary
    • Beside My Son
    • She Has Given Me the Bullet
    • Commentary
    • She Has Given Me the Bullet
    • The Good Fight
    • The Dove
    • The Rose
    • Not Going Back
    • Montreal
    • French and English
    • O Wife Unmasked
    • The Window
    • Your Death
    • Petitions
    • The Rebellion
    • The Price of This Book
    • Roshi
    • This Wretch
    • Hurry to Your Dinner
    • Commentary
    • Hurry to Your Dinner
    • Slowly I Married Her
    • The Transmission
    • End of My Life in Art
    • Roshi Again
    • How to Speak Poetry
    • Commentary
    • How to Speak Poetry
    • The Politics of This Book
    • You're Not Supposed to Be Here
    • Final Examination
    • Commentary
    • Final Examination
    • Came So Far for Beauty
    • The Window
    • Our Lady of Solitude
    • The Gypsy Wife
    • The Traitor
    • The Guests
    • Ballad of the Absent Mare
    • I Stopped to Listen
    • When I Left the King
    • I Heard My Soul Singing
    • Sit Down, Master
    • In the Eyes of Men
    • Blessed Are You
    • You Have Sweetened Your Word
    • I Draw Aside the Curtain
    • Friend, When You Speak
    • My Teacher
    • Israel
    • You Who Pour Mercy into Hell
    • When I Have Not Rage
    • We Cry Out
    • You Who Question Souls
    • It Is All Around Me
    • It Is to You I Turn
    • Holy Is Your Name
    • Not Knowing Where to Go
    • All My Life
    • I Lost My Way
    • Dance Me to the End of Love
    • Coming Back to You
    • The Captain
    • If It Be Your Will
    • The Night Comes On
    • Hallelujah
    • First We Take Manhattan
    • Take This Waltz
    • Ain't No Cure for Love
    • I'm Your Man
    • I Can't Forget
    • Everybody Knows
    • The Tower of Song
    • Democracy
    • The Future
    • Anthem
    • Light as the Breeze
    • Closing Time
    • Waiting for the Miracle
    • To a Fellow Student
    • Fragment from a Journal
    • When Even The
    • Paris Models
    • On Seeing Kabir's Poems on Her Dressing Table
    • My Honour
    • Peace
    • The Embrace
    • A Deep Happiness
    • Every Pebble
    • Days of Kindness.
    Genre:
    Canadian poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry | Cohen, Leonard
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781538548769, 1538548763, 9781538548776, 1538548771