This overtly poetic Midwestern Gothic has a rhythm and pull that carries it through its sometimes overwrought stylings. Jason “Coleman” Moore is an itinerant jazz guitarist and sometimes-sailor whose alcohol-soaked life is haunted by the ghosts of his domineering forbears and by fraught relationships with his daughter, his former lover, his ex-wife, and his musical soul-mate and partner. Moving backward and forward through time and place, between Detroit in 1932 to present-day Lake Huron, Of Song and Water is a convincing if static portrait of loss and regret. more »

(published in KGBBarLit, Winter 2007)