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Love and the Green Lady: Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge: Oregon's Crown Jewel of Socialism
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Matt Love
Nikole DeBois
, September 24, 2016
I now see what it is in Matt Love’s work that makes everything he writes more than just alluring literature. It was unearthed while reading “Love and the Green Lady”. He’s an idealist, a romantic. He exhales the life of the past in this work to propose vision for a better tomorrow. All this vision enveloping around the curvaceous Yaquina Bay Bridge he calls the Green Lady. The letters to Conde McCullough by Love’s Newport High School students are rarities he immortalized. Love shared the bridge’s functions, aesthetics, and 80-year history with the world. He shared a moment with the man whose face was not vacant. He brought to life the memory of a cab driver, the reminiscing of a mourning family, and the love of newlyweds. He performed the most divine sensual rite on the Green Lady. He wrote about it all. The morale he demonstrates with his work is inspiring. He does not settle. He sees how we as a global community can do better. He commemorates on the gems he’s discovered and rhapsodizes about them. He demonstrates reverence for the normal ‘and’ obscure. He is moved by the grace of punk rock red hair. He instills hope for the revival of New Deal socialism. That is why he is an idealist and romantic. The sweet harmonizing words inside the pages of “Love and the Green Lady” are exquisite declarations of love. Matt Love taught us about the sparkle of the Green Lady’s curves. I have never been so in love with books.
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Love & the Green Lady
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Matt Love
Nikole DeBois
, September 24, 2016
I now see what it is in Matt Love’s work that makes everything he writes more than just alluring literature. It was unearthed while reading “Love and the Green Lady”. He’s an idealist, a romantic. He exhales the life of the past in this work to propose vision for a better tomorrow. All this vision enveloping around the curvaceous Yaquina Bay Bridge he calls the Green Lady. The letters to Conde McCullough by Love’s Newport High School students are rarities he immortalized. Love shared the bridge’s functions, aesthetics, and 80-year history with the world. He shared a moment with the man whose face was not vacant. He brought to life the memory of a cab driver, the reminiscing of a mourning family, and the love of newlyweds. He performed the most divine sensual rite on the Green Lady. He wrote about it all. The morale he demonstrates with his work is inspiring. He does not settle. He sees how we as a global community can do better. He commemorates on the gems he’s discovered and rhapsodizes about them. He demonstrates reverence for the normal ‘and’ obscure. He is moved by the grace of punk rock red hair. He instills hope for the revival of New Deal socialism. That is why he is an idealist and romantic. The sweet harmonizing words inside the pages of “Love and the Green Lady” are exquisite declarations of love. Matt Love taught us about the sparkle of the Green Lady’s curves. I have never been so in love with books.
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Of Walking in Rain
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Matt Love
Nikole DeBois
, September 10, 2016
“Of Walking In Rain” by Matt Love is more than an ode to rain. Have you ever plunged into Oregon rain naked and considered it a refuge from the opaque fog that is life? Love did and his story about it is magical. Love etches out an unexplored adventure about how rain can cultivate a man’s spirit. Love’s memorable insights as a teacher are shared, making us entertained and warmed. My favorite teaching memory shared in “Of Walking In Rain” was a climaxing school newspaper snafu because the end result is gold. The moral of the chapter: to refute adversity and take the high road. It was a priceless lesson Love taught his students and their voices were heard. We are given the ultimate metaphor for adversity through this declaration of love for rain. The entire situation with Love’s journalism class is a microscopic example of what rain must confront as a daily challenge. We can utilize enveloping protection like umbrellas and persist indoors ignorant of rain’s potency. It will still rain and we will still get wet. Rain undermines all adversity. A story of heartbreak also submerges our hero into a tidal wave of confusion. Rain helps him heal. Have you ever felt like you needed comfort? Have you ever needed a refuge from the pains of brokenness? Love needed refuge and comfort. He found it in rain. Love’s craftsmanship to formulate a personal journey within “Of Walking In Rain” makes for an intimate read that will smite your soul. It happened to me. It will happen to you.
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Great Birthright
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Matt Love
Nikole DeBois
, September 01, 2016
“The Great Birthright” is romantic, sexy, educational and funny all at once. Love embraces the famous quirks that demonstrate Oregon’s weirdness and wilderness! Why not have second amendment fanatics packing heat on the beach alongside beatniks playing hacky-sack and smoking joints to dismay the move-in of fat cats? Love doesn’t just touch base on a humanistic vision that reminds me of a quintessential distillation of absinthe. Love also values all life. The famous Sonny, the sea lions, the Sea God, etc. are posited in the middle of this controversy, enumerating the many things Matt Love is thankful for in his home state. The term ‘riprap’ is introduced and how it is destroying Oregon’s public beaches is explained. Love launches us into a hypothetical situation that is all too real. We are also informed of the historical Beach Bill. The research is done for us so we readers can sit back and feel like romantic literary peers, sexy naked beachcombers, frustrated Oregonians, enlightened students, and drunk OTAs all at once. Love has an ability to set up entire scenes with attitude, people, voice and vision. Most recent fiction involves realism without a narrative arc to keep readers interested. If I were to assess this piece solely on literary merit, the fact that it’s contemporary and offers suspense makes the piece trump all other contemporary literature. It’s a treasure buried along the cold beautiful beaches of the Oregon coast waiting to be discovered by each reader.
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