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I recently published my first collection of poetry, A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems<\/em>. The print version is available exclusively through nestuccaspitpress.com and the e-book is available on Amazon at: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0HDYFQJ6T<\/p>\n\n\n\n Description below. Thanks for supporting an independent Pacific Northwest publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in the history of Pacific Northwest literature, Matt Love presents 148 poems written over a 30-year span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As he writes in the introduction to A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems<\/em>, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cConfessionals, 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<\/em>, something merging where Charles Bukowski, Richard Hugo, Mary Oliver and Liz Phair blend together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Readers: I recently published my first collection of poetry, A Substantial but Incomplete Autobiography in Poems. The print version is available exclusively through nestuccaspitpress.com and the e-book is available on Amazon at: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0HDYFQJ6T Description below. Thanks for supporting an independent Pacific Northwest publisher. In perhaps the largest, most eclectic volume of previously unpublished poetry in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[630,1274,802,878],"class_list":["post-11449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","tag-matt-love","tag-new-poetry-collection","tag-oregon-poetry","tag-poetry-books","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11452,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions\/11452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}