Everything Ever, Everything After opens with the image of a girl behind the glass of an ordinary living room window, caught between the family struggle happening behind her and the world she can’t yet break through to. The poems in the collection move through the roots and consequences of the family trouble, through generations, estrangements, and a marriage and its end. The poems occasionally draw on the fairy tale tradition and the Old Testament stories of Leah and Rachel to ultimately bring the speaker and the reader finally to the possibility of leaving the story.
