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    Sea Level
    Sea Level
    Sea Level
    Ebook73 pages29 minutes

    Sea Level

    By Suzanne Matson

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    Table of Contents:

    After Charming
    Ambergis
    The Artist And His Model
    The Bohemian Wedding
    Ceremony
    Coyotes
    Daughters (1)
    Daughters (2)
    Daughters (3)
    Debussy
    Drawing Water
    Elegy For Neil
    For My Mother On Her Birthday, Swimming
    Fossils
    Getting Out Of Tijuana
    The Good Morning
    Home And Other Future Travel Plans
    In Rovaniemi, Finland, Twenty-fifth Birthday
    Jackson County Census: 1880
    Jackson County Census: 1900
    Letters: 1
    Letters: 2
    Letters: 3
    Letters: 4
    Like
    Love In The Coal Mine
    Married, To Ivan
    News From The Fire Strip
    Newspaper Pictures Out Of Poland: December 1981
    Nullipara
    Phrases For Problems
    Riding The Last Row Of The Articulated Bus
    Scotch Coulee
    Squid
    The Sunbather
    The Sunday Drunk
    Takeover
    There Was A Temporary Accident
    To Her Friend The Physicist
    Travelers
    Valise
    Venetain Mosaic 1
    Venetain Mosaic 2
    Venetain Mosaic 3
    Venetain Mosaic 4
    Vera
    Wanting, The Mortuary
    Widow Aunts
    Woman With Distaff
    The Women On The Bridge
    The Wound-up Girl Ice Skater
    Your First Questions

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlice James Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9781948579919
    Sea Level
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    Suzanne Matson

    Suzanne Matson was born in Portland, Oregon, and studied at Portland State University and the University of Washington. Her first novel, The Hunger Moon, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her third, The Tree-Sitter, was short-listed for the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Award. She has published two poetry collections with Alice James Books, teaches at Boston College, and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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