Poems And Songs

Author: Leonard Cohen

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  • : $31.95 AUD
  • : 9780307595836
  • : Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
  • : Knopf
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  • : 0.227
  • : March 2011
  • : 160mm X 114mm X 19mm
  • : United States
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  • : Leonard Cohen
  • : Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
  • : Hardback
  • : 411
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  • : English
  • : 811.54
  • : very good
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Barcode 9780307595836
9780307595836

Description

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations.

Author description

Leonard Cohen s artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He has published two novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, and eleven books of poetry, most recently Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, Book of Longing, and Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs. He has to date released fourteen studio albums, the most recent of which, You Want It Darker, was 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.   "