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In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.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

What to Write About

A Vortex I Story

When Fog Met Smoke

Oregon Tavern Age: Horny Rod

Corona Virus Thoughts #14

Country Music Morning Fog

In Line at the Post Office Blues

The One-word Trucker Outreach Writing Project (part 2)

The One-word Trucker Outreach Writing Project

Excerpt from a Letter that I Hope Will Change the Course of My Life

A Note on the Road

Oregon Tavern Age: Detox

Corona Virus Thoughts #13

A Stroll Through My Forts

On Vortex I in 1970 by Nicholas von Hoffman

Letter to Governor McCall in Praise of Vortex

Dr. Cameron Bangs at Vortex I

Vortex Voices

Tom McCall at Vortex I

On Vortex 50 Years Later

Happy 50th Anniversary Vortex I

Pandemic Writing Assignment

Excerpt from Meth Town, My Upcoming Western

Corona Virus Thoughts #12

Blackberries in Literature

They’re Watering the Football Field

Oregon Tavern Age: Skunk

Fort Fire

Some Fort Meditations

Drugged by Oregon

The Return of Nurse Ratched

On the Hieroglyphics of Gull Tracks

Caves, Cliffs, Erosion and Shit Going Down

Some Thoughts on My Writing Process

Corona Virus Thoughts #11

Three Excerpts From Lark Jameson’s Stories

Lark Jameson’s Story Summaries

A Little About Lark Jameson, Writer

Introducing Lark Jameson, New Oregon Writer of Erotica

Intent