The Teaching Maxims of Karl Love
Compiled by Matt Love
A special publication from Nestucca Spit Press hand-set and printed by Travis Champ at Manzanita People’s Print Shop. Limited edition of 300 copies.
$10 (Free shipping)
My father, Karl Love, taught masterfully for 35 years in public and private schools in Oregon and Brazil. He retired from the classroom in 1991 but it was my good fortune to teach alongside Dad at Oregon City High School during his last job. I was in my second year of teaching and felt unsure of my future in the profession. I had neither a coherent teaching philosophy nor a defined idealism. One day, I overheard Dad discussing an indifferent student with a struggling colleague. “Don’t prop up mush,” he advised. I wrote this succinct phrase down and began compiling all of Dad’s maxims on teaching because they taught me how to teach with efficiency, integrity and passion... click here to read more |
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Love & The Green Lady
Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge:
Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism
(Part Two of the Newport Trilogy)
by Matt Love
200 pages, 105 photographs
5 ½” x 7 ½”, paperback
ISBN 978-09744364-5-6
Price $20
For Booksellers:
Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping. Thank you for buying direct from us.
Nestucca Spit Press announces the release of Love & The Green Lady, Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge: Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism, by Matt Love.
Oregon opened the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport on Labor Day 1936. Built during the New Deal, the Yaquina Bay Bridge was the aesthetic and engineering brainchild of Conde McCullough, Oregon’s State Bridge Engineer from 1919 to 1937. For 75 years the Yaquina Bay Bridge has stood magnificently as a monument to excellence in architecture and how a partnership between state and federal government in the throes of an economic calamity can produce something practical, beautiful, and lasting. It is nothing less than an Oregon landmark and a powerful reminder how to build a great bridge. Click here to read more... |
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Chance of Sun
An Oregon Memoir
by Kim Cooper Findling
176 pages, 5 ½” x 8 ½”, paperback, ISBN 978-09744364-6-3
$20
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Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping. Thank you for buying direct from us.
In her debut as an author, Findling’s memoir unfolds the story of an Oregon girl coming of age in the 1970s and 80s, navigating her way through pick-up trucks, dive bars, higher education and backwoods trails before finding a place she belongs.
Beginning with her childhood in Coos County, Findling relates a rural unbringing spent walking beaches and hiking in the woods with her forester father, attending summer camp just over the hill from the Oregon Country Fair, road-tripping to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with schoolmates, and learning about the fickleness of love in campgrounds, beer joints and on the University of Oregon campus. Yet, following a move to Oregon’s biggest city after college, Findling lost her way and her connection to Oregon’s landscape, becoming caught up in the drugs and booze that flowed so freely in Portland’s restaurant scene. But it was Oregon that helped Findling find herself again later, this time on the east side of the mountains, where she found clarity in High Desert trails and a wide-open sky, as well as life’s most grounding phenomenon—love. Click here to read more... |
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Gimme Refuge:
The Education of a Caretaker
by Matt Love
Special Edition
Order a special edition of Gimme Refuge signed by author Matt Love and illustrator Cindy Popp for $30 available only through Nestucca Spit Press. The edition also features an elegant bookmark hand printed on a letter press. |
Gimme Refuge:
The Education of a Caretaker
by Matt Love
177 pages, 17 illustrations
5 ½” x 8 ½”, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9744364-4-9
Price $20
For Booksellers
Nestucca Spit Press offers bookstores the standard 60/40 rate and will pay for all shipping.
Thank you for buying direct from us.
Gimme Refuge opens with Love’s first teaching day in 1989 and moves forward to 1998 when he taught at Neskowin Valley School and simultaneously assumed the duty as caretaker of the refuge, a former dairy farm in dire need of restoration. The book concludes ten years later when Love left the refuge after losing a public fight to limit public access to the grounds. “I consider my role as caretaker as the greatest one of my life. I had a direct hand in planting some 15,000 trees on the refuge and it’s awesome to think that they’ll long outlive anything I’ve ever written,” said Love. |
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Super Sunday in Newport
Notes From My First Year in Town
by Matt Love
157 pages,
5 ½” x 8 ½” paperback
ISBN 978-0-9744364-6-3
Price $15
For Booksellers
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Thank you for buying direct from us.
Super Sunday in Newport features 46 pieces originally written for the weekly open mic sessions at Café Mundo in Nye Beach. It mixes memoir, polemic, vignette, essay and photographs to create a unique personal portrait of Newport and unconventional narrative of Love’s transitional year.
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Citadel of the Spirit:
Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology
Edited by Matt Love
500 pages, 6” x 9” hardback
Price $100
Both editions contain 63 original essays by many of the state’s finest writers and 61 excerpts from primary documents related to Oregon history. The title derives from a quote by Ken Kesey, “Oregon is the citadel of the spirit.”
This is a one time only print run of 200 hardbound limited-edition copies.
SPECIAL LIMITED-EDITION
Signed and numbered hardback limited-edition, includes
fully-featured DVD Politics of Sand
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Citadel of the Spirit:
Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology
Edited by Matt Love
500 page,
6” x 9” paperback
ISBN 0-9744364-9-6
Price $30
Citadel of the Spirit boasts an impressive roster of literary talent. Some of the better-known writers who contributed essays for the anthology include: Gina Ochsner, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michael Strelow, David Horowitz, Kim Stafford, Walt Curtis, Ken Babbs, Bart King, Ellen Waterston, Jeff Baker, Kassten Alonso, Katrine Barber, Joanna Rose, Brian Doyle, Melissa Madenski, Cheryl Strayed, Erin Ergenbright, and Monica Drake. |
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Old Nehalem Road
Poems by Travis Champ
6" x 9" paperback
Price $15
Featuring thirty poems, all set in Oregon, Old Nehalem Road represents a remarkable literary debut for a 25-year-old poet.
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Travis Champ set all the type for the book, printed its pages on a hundred-year-old press, and bound all three hundred copies of the first edition print run.
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Red
Hot and Rollin’:
A Retrospection of the
Portland Trail Blazers’ 1976-77 NBA Championship
Season
- by Matt Love
6" x 9" paperback
ISBN 0-9744364-8-8
Price $20
On June 5, 1977 the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Philadelphia 76-ers to win their first and only NBA Championship. The next day, two hundred and fifty thousand fans jammed downtown Portland to celebrate in what remains the largest public gathering in Oregon history. A good social disease known as Blazermania and an electrifying community energy known as Rip City had overtaken an entire state.
Click here for the Red Hot and Rollin' slide show!
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The Far Out Story
of Vortex I
Edited by Matt Love
ISBN 0-9744364-1-0
Price $20
The Far Out Story of Vortex
I documented the 1970 free rock festival held in
Oregon that holds the distinction of being the first and
only state sanctioned, state sponsored event of its kind
in American history.
Click here for the Vortex I slide show! |
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Grasping Wastrels
vs.
Beaches Forever, Inc.
by Matt Love
5.5" x 7.5" paperback
ISBN 0-9744364-0-2
Price $10
Grasping Wastrels vs. Beaches Forever Inc.: Covering
the Fights for the Soul of the Oregon Coast, released
in 2003, consisted of a collection of my personal essays
exploring the special heritage of Oregon’s publicly-owned
ocean beaches and the ongoing struggle to conserve them. |
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Salt:
A Collection
of Poetry on the
Oregon Coast
Edited by
Amanda Deutch
Price $10
Salt’s 32 poets’ contributions reflect the special nature of Oregon’s
beaches and the range of influence the state’s coastal landscape
has exerted on American poetry over many decades.From
the Beat Generation/Zen Buddhist heroes Philip Whalen and Gary
Snyder, to the renowned father and son literary tandem of William
and Kim Stafford, to commercial fishermen, activists, long-time
coastal residents, and contemporary experimental poets, Salt offers
readers a variety of established and new poetic voices in its 80
pages. |
