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In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.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

Returnable Kindness

The Selfie Sign

Bouquet for the Eagle

A Walk With Bonnie

Verbs at the Beach

The Bullet Hole Chair

Current Reading

Bonnie and Clyde Files (Last Chapter)

Crow Kindness_Heron Living

KFC Non-kindness

Tangerine Kindness

Kindness and Gratitude Sent Out

Operation Oregon Beach Deflowering

Notes From Non-Corporate Coffee

Notes From Corporate Coffee

River Morning

Oregon Tavern Age: Sea Star Motion

Oregon Tavern Age: Conversations

Oregon Tavern Age: Incident Report

Oregon Tavern Age: Hearts

Oregon Tavern Age: Jeffers Garden Inn

Oregon Tavern Age: Writer

Veracity in Fact and Fiction Writing Workshop in Astoria

On Being Alone

Tennis On My Mind

The Teaching Maxims of Karl Love

Forts and Photographs

Netul River Musings

Bonnie and Clyde Files 47 (Book Launch Week!)

Raining Dogs and Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde Files 46

The Bonnie and Clyde Files: How Two Senior Dogs Saved a Middle Aged Man

Bonnie and Clyde Files 45 (Book Launch Week!)

Bonnie and Clyde Files 44 (Book Launch!)

Oregon Tavern Age: Roosters

Oregon Tavern Age: Solitude

Oregon Tavern Age: Elk

Fort Ferret

Walking in Rain March 27