These poems are sincere and simple. They evoke the same feeling as reading a postcard or slowly flipping through an old photo album. These are poems of bars, bikinis, backpacking, break-ups, best friends, and beauty. Of seasons and search for companionship, speedy getaways and summer crushes, whiskey shots and twelve hour shifts. Memories we cannot forget.
It is refreshing to read a poet who doesn't want to con-fuse, condescend, lecture or pontificate through poetry. Poems that are not written for nominations or awards-but for the heart. This collection is meant to be read, passed around, talked about and sent to your best friends; to be shared. Matt strives to be nothing more than clear and honest with the reader. He sips his drink slowly and appreciates the moment; before, during and in the aftermath. This is the gift of a good poet.
Matt's poems in The Memory of Her bring to life the sim-ple pleasures and slight pains that life and poetry present us.
