Paul Marion
Lowell, MA

Reviews

Atop an Underwood

• Review by Juliana L'Heureux
• Reviews on Amazon.com
• Other Praises
  • “Indispensable for the reader who wants to chart the development of one of our most talented writers.” - Chicago Tribune
  • “Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise.” - The Boston Globe
  • “The beauty of Marion’s editorial contribution is that Atop an Underwood works as well for new readers of Kerouac as for knowledgeable devotees. The editor’s commentary, never intrusive, illuminates the significance of individual compositions.” - The St. Petersburg Times
  • “This is Jack Kerouac developing his skills, awaiting his muse …. Marion’s introductions are brief and to the point, intelligent and unpretentious.” - The Cleveland Plain Dealer
  • “Marion has assembled a collection of Kerouac’s early work that is fascinating in what it reveals about his early interests and early methods ….” - The American Book Review
  • “Offers a wonderful glimpse into the author’s formative years. Editor Marion includes notes that illuminate certain sections without intrusion.” - Boston Herald

Praise for Other Writings

• “Marion seems to delight in grasping at the elemental thing that is the city . . . . His language is clear, precise, and earthy.” - Apple Tree Review (New Hampshire)
• “Paul Marion’s are poems of substance, as vivid and flavorful as poems ought to be.” - Stony Hills (Maine)
• “Marion’s poetry . . . surges through our disordered countryside and cities, overlooking nothing, obedient to its unadorned eye. [His] poetry forces us to recognize that an American definition of beauty must be comprised, at least in part, of exactly what and who we are.” - Gargoyle(Maryland)
• “… some of the best ‘working class’ poems that I’ve read.” - Tom Sexton, former editor of Alaska Quarterly Review and former Alaska Poet Laureate
• “. . . humour, concern, wonder, anger (but restrained) and a very appealing straight to the point trait. . . . [S]harply observed stories . . . like reading Thoreau, Kerouac, and Bukowski and Hawthorne all in one.” - Beat Scene (England)
• “The different levels of culture and history presented free the poems from any one particular moment in time and instead present a fluid structure in which personal historical depth is important and in which the reader is able to locate his or her past. . . . Marion’s poetry is anchored dead center in life . . . . [He] is a poet who should be emulated in our fragmented society.” - Moody Street Irregulars (New York)