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In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.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

Some Good News From Yachats

Being Incurious

Morning After the Election

Last Minute Election Thoughts

Some Political Thoughts on Homelessness

Hunter’s Moon Walk

Some Thoughts On My Current Writing Life

Sobbing

Loreena the Homeless Grant Writer

Fall Ruminations

A JV Football Game

Dusty in Coos Bay

Another Excerpt from Never Stop Pre

Excerpt from Never Stop Pre

Never Stop Pre: The Enduring Inspiration of America’s Greatest Sports Legend…by Matt Love (new book out!)

A Tanka

Message from a Coyote

Surrealism and the Homeless

Oregon Tavern Age: Silver Dollar at Noon

Sunrise at Sunset Bay

Restoring a Human Watercourse

Homeless Housewarming Invitation

Semi Topless Stranger in the Park

Some Thoughts on Football

The Stone Oregon Era

Oregon Tavern Age: Hamburger Helper

Oregon Tavern Age: Noon Friday

Thoughts on Giving Away The Old Crow Book Club to Homeless People

Hey Joe

Thoughts on Portland Punk Rock and Homelessness

Dean the Duck Man

New Second Edition Updated E-book of The Old Crow Book Club

The End of Kelp Stories on the Oregon Coast

The Parable of the Lost Sheep and a Fentanyl Smoker

UNSHELTERED—None of Us Are Home Until All of Us Are Home

In Praise of Public Drinking Fountains!

Riparian Rage

Some Thoughts on Teaching a Writing Workshop

A Piece of Art

Back Deck 100 Degree Ruminations