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. Stranger Music presents 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; selections from such books as Flowers for Hitler Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady s Man and eleven previously unpublished poems.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.