JOSEPH COULSON
Tuesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at Richard Hugo House, 1634 Eleventh Avenue

Co-presented with RICHARD HUGO HOUSE & ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS. Making a welcome Seattle return is Boston-based novelist Joseph Coulson. His debut, The Vanishing Moon, and now his new novel, Of Song and Water, are just about the only original English-language releases of indispensable Archipelago Books, which has otherwise published only translations. "Music and nearly magical evocations of a Midwest landscape shape Coulson's debut, The Vanishing Moon (2004). In his second novel, he portrays a jazz guitarist with grievously injured hands and a complicated relationship with Lake Huron...Coulson's complexly elegiac tale is, in part, a tribute to his mentor, poet and Great Lakes mariner Stephen Tudor. Love abandoned, violence sustained, guilt, grief, the transcendence of sailing and making music, all play in jazzlike counterpoint. Coulson's rhapsodic novel progresses form harsh equations of black and white to an exaltation of color." - Donna Seaman, Booklist. Free admission (no tickets). Richard Hugo House is located at 1634 Eleventh Avenue. For more information, please see www.hugohouse.org or call (206) 322-7030.

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