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In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.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

Oregon Tavern Age: Democracy

Bonnie and Clyde Files 14

Contemplation

A Barn Raising

Streams of Driftwood Fort Consciousness

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Driftwood Fort Musings

How to Become a Writer Part 4

How to Become a Writer Part 3

How to Become a Writer Part 2

How to Become a Writer Part 1

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Faces in Fact and Fiction Writing Workshop on Sept. 16

“Trew”

Lost and Found 15 / Purpose

Rallying

Lines From the Ocean Writing Workshop

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Agendas Delivered

Reading “Song of Myself” in the Probation Office

Young Vaping Man and the Sea

PhDs

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Return to Saddle Mountain

A Phone Call for The Beach Bill

HB 1601: The Beach Bill

Homage To Matt Kramer

Celebrate 50th Anniversary of The Beach Bill This Friday!

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Lost and Found 14 B / Endings

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Lost and Found 14 A / Endings

Russians at the Jetty

Finding Inspiration

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NSP Correspondent / Matthew Sproul / Twofer

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Bonnie and Clyde Files 5

Fort Vodka

Oregon Tavern Age: White Wine Wednesday