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In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.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

A Gift of Sunglasses

Reading Hart Crane with the Husky

Proposed Constitutional Changes to Save the Republic (if it’s worth saving) on the 4th of July

Nestucca Spit Press 4th of July Blowout Sale!

A Socialist Nine Holes of Golf

Nothing Gold Beach Can Stay

Oregon Tavern Age: Surrealism

Oregon Tavern Age: Narcan Angel

Oregon Tavern Age: Evergreen

The Wheelchair Couple

The Puppy

Rest in Peace Earl Mohr

Wagon Train

Watching Trump’s Trial on CNN While My Dad Wants to Die

Oregon Tavern Age: A Monologue

Bill Walton and the Secret Weapon to the Portland Trail Blazers Winning the NBA title in 1977

At the Siuslaw Jetty

Three Poems About the Homeless

Our First Fort Together

Chumming

The Fixer Upper

The End of a Scene

Sonny and the Big Clean-up Day (New e-book released)

Oregon Tavern Age: Pre Lives!

Human Rescue

Birthday Camping Trip

An Osprey Man

Thirty-eight Years on the Job

Oregon Tavern Age: Degenerate Wednesday

Be a Citizen!

Morning in a Dog Park

“Responding to a Message of Heartbreak” Writing Workshop in Astoria, July 20

AI Matt Love on Oregon’s Beaches

Starbucks Order Pickup

Once More into the Breach with Mark, My Homeless Friend

Up On a Broomstick

Rainy Morning Homeless Meditations

Oregon Tavern Age: Afternoon Images

Oregon Tavern Age: The Caregiver