Sea Level
Suzanne Matson
"Suzanne Matson's Sea Level provides us everything we'd
expect—skill, authority, emotional strength, delicacy, assurance—in a fourth
book, and it's her first. This is a memorable debut and a book to be read again and
again."
—William Matthews
"I would rate Sea Level among the very best of the collections Alice James
Books has done..."
—Brendan Galvin in Shenandoah
"These delicately crafted poems treat the lives of women as precious fossil,
examining what is known and given, and imagining what is not...This is a remarkable first
book."
—Calyx
about the author
Suzanne Matson is the author of three novels and two books of poetry. Sea Level and Durable Goods were published in 1990 and 1993 from Alice James Books; her novels are The Hunger Moon (1997), A Trick of Nature (2000) and The Tree-Sitter (2006), all from W. W. Norton. Since 1988 she has taught at Boston College, where she is a Professor of English. Originally from Portland Oregon, and educated at Portland State University and the University of Washington, she now lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her husband and three sons.
