Of Song And Water

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Forced to abandon his musical career, Coleman finds himself in the company of ghosts as he struggles to move his father's sailing boat out of dry dock. There is the ghost of his teacher, a black jazz musician living quietly on the edge of a predominantly white town; his grandfather, a rum runner and pirate of the Great Lakes; and his first love, a woman unafraid of the past. And then there is also the memory of the ill-fated affair which led him to abandon his music

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The jazz scenes crackle with energy and authority . . . Coulson moves fluidly between the past and the present, and the novel is ultimately quiet, affecting and redemptive. Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Joseph Coulson's 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, from ForeWord 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.