Joseph Coulson is a novelist, poet, playwright, and teacher. His first novel, The Vanishing Moon (2004), published as a Harvest Book from Harcourt and in German and French translations, 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. His second novel, Of Song and Water (2007), was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and enjoyed both critical and commercial success in France, fueled by an award-winning translation by Judith Roze and reviews in leading publications, including Le Monde.
THE PROMISE
on beaches of remote
thought
turn shell and fetid
logs
find
magic too long hidden
in this place build
refuge
cast off
obliging smiles
hear ocean words
unloosed
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