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In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.

As he writes in the introduction to A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems, “I have organized this collection into six categories: Ocean, Love, My Life, Oregon Tavern Age, Homelessness, Probation. These poems serve as a substantial but incomplete autobiography.”

“Confessionals, odes, scatological doggerel, polemics, tankas, haiku, prose, psalms, requiems, observations, love letters, lamentations, lyrics, stream of consciousness, meditations, lists, riffs, a eulogy, a sermon, a commencement speech, found poetry, tributes, elegies. I threw it all into an ancient cement mixer and hand cranked that concrete beast while watching blue herons undulate overhead and drinking red wine as the husky snoozed in his dirt fort. The result: A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems, something merging where Charles Bukowski, Richard Hugo, Mary Oliver and Liz Phair blend together.”

None of Love's poems were ever submitted to poetry journals, contests or magazines, making this collection a true renegade project of passion and readable to any denizen of a coastal dive bar.

Mark the Matchmaker

On Moral Castration

Golf Report

Herbs

Golf Prep

Two Blocks

Capitol Mall

Coyote and Sturgeon Morning

Fort Building Metaphor Magic

Some Musings

City Fort

What I’ve Learned Writing and Publishing Books

Back Deck Musings

Cloudy Thoughts

What Would Tom McCall Do?

The Old Crow Book Launch Party!

The Return of My Mix Tapes

The State of Our Nation 5-12-82

Saturday Morning Homeless Report From the Southern Oregon Coast

Trump Takes a Molalla Dump

Molalla

Excerpt from The Savage of State Street: The Thieving and Literary Lives of Smoky Epley

Pistol River Magic

Oregon Tavern Age: Death and More Death at the Sea Star

South Coast Bible Coffee Shop

The Book Critics!

Anya

Mark’s Heart Attacks

Oregon Tavern Age: Poetry

The Old Crow Book Release

Henk Pander and Tom McCall (Part 2)

Henk Pander and Tom McCall (Part 1)

Oregon Tavern Age: Heritage Pub

Linda, the Bookstore Clerk

Oregon Tavern Age: Bassmaster Classic

The Old Crow Book Club is Here

Three New Nestucca Spit Press Books Out!

Marty! Marty! Marty!

The Destruction of a Wetlands (Part 2)

The Destruction of a Wetlands (Part 1)