Everything Breaking/For Good: Poems by Matt Hart

The poems in Everything Breaking/For Good swerve through the world as they ache for something better, something that might be but isn’t…at least not yet, and maybe never. Matt Hart’s newest collection asks can a creative life really make it alright? Does imagination make the world? Is paying attention to what’s right in front of our faces the key to empathizing with a universe that isn’t? How do we find our feet with each other when everything seems to be breaking for good? How can we not?

Hart reveals in his skillful sixth book the instability in experiences and interactions with remarkable craftsmanship and command of imagery [and] revels in the impossibility of his own rhetorical situation, suggesting that poetry affords a testing ground for ideas and speculations, and seemingly implausible models of the world around us. This book stands as an accomplished addition to Hart’s innovative body of work.