Of Song and Water: A Novel
Orpheus descending through a jazz musician's memories (in a minor key). A powerful second novel.
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"Joseph Coulson's writing makes a reader hear jazz."Los Angeles TimesForced to abandon his musical career, Coleman Moore finds himself at midlife in the company of ghosts: his grandfather, a rumrunner and Great Lakes pirate; his jazz mentor, a black man in a white town; and his first love. Like a melody or a swift stream,Of Song and Water pulls us into a world of hidden truth, crushed dreams, and possible redemption.Joseph Coulson, novelist, poet, and playwright, was born in Detroit in 1957. His first novel,The Vanishing Moon (2004) was selected for the Barnes & Noble Great New Writers series and won the Book of the Year Award, Gold Medal in Literary Fiction, fromForeWord Magazine . Coulson is the author of three volumes of poetry: The Letting Go, A Measured Silence, and Graph.His first play, A Saloon at the Edge of the World (co-authored with William Relling, Jr.), a noir drama showcased by Theater Artists of Marin, won both popular and critical acclaim in the San Francisco Bay area. Coulson has been the recipient of a Gray Writing Fellowship (selected by Robert Creeley) and a Ph.D. in American literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. A teacher for many years, he recently served as Editorial Director for the Great Books Foundation in Chicago. He now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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