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4th Estate
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First published in the United States by Random House in 2017
This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2018
Copyright © 2017 by Matthew Klam
Drawings copyright © 2017 by John S. Cuneo
Cover design by Jack Smyth
“Sea-Level Elegy” was first published in Stag’s Leap (Jonathan Cape 4th October, 2012). Reprinted by permission of Jonathan Cape and Aragi Inc.
Matthew Klam asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780008282516
Ebook Edition © March 2018 ISBN: 9780008282523
Version: 2018-03-23
FOR DANIEL MENAKER
Once, each summer, I howl,
and draw myself back, out of there, where
desire and joy, where ignorance, where
touch and the ideal, where unwilled yet willful
blindness – once a year, I have mercy,
I let myself go down where I have lived, and then,
hand over hand, I pull myself back up.
“Sea-Level Elegy”, Sharon Olds
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