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Edited volumes

Atop an Underwood & Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac [French edition] (Paris: Éditions Denoël, 2005 forthcoming)

Atop an Underwood is being translated into French and will be published later this year in Paris. It will be combined with an early Kerouac novel, Orpheus Emerged, written in the period immediately following the years covered in Atop.

Stay tuned for details.

Atop an Underwood by Jack Kerouac, Edited by Paul Marion

Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic On the Road and became the definitive voice of Beat culture, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. In Atop an Underwood, editor Paul Marion has brought together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, ranging from stories and poems to plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, The Sea Is My Brother. Readers, scholars, and critics will find in this book a fascinating missing link in Kerouac's development as a writer.

Kerouac's lifelong subjects of America, adventurous travel, spiritual questing, work, family, and sports are all in Atop an Underwood. The writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literacy influences; readers will also find in these works the source of Kerouac's spontaneous prose. In the first words he ever wrote, Kerouac proves he was born with passion for writing and living. As he declared later in his life, "Always considered writing my duty on earth."

Published by Viking Press, 1999 and Penguin, 2000
ISBN: 0670888222.
Available at at Amazon.com.

French Class: French Canadian-American Writings on Identity, Culture, and Place

Published by Loom Press, 1999.
Co-author with S. April, P. Brouillette, & M. L. St. Onge.
Available from Barnes and Nobles.
See also on The Bridge Review.

The Generator Room

Published by Loom Press, 1999.
ISBN: 0931507081
With David Ireland, James Coates, and James Higgins .
Available from Barnes and Nobles.

Vital Records: Poems From the LIRA Writing Workshop

Published by Loom Press, 1994.
ISBN: 0931507065
Available from Barnes and Nobles.

Merrimack: A Poetry Anthology

Published by Loom Press, 1992.
ISBN: 0931507057
With J. Brox and K. Aponick.
Available from Barnes and Nobles.

Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History

Published by The Lowell Conference on Industrial History, 1981.
ISBN: 096074780X
With William H. Lazonick, William H. Mulligan,Jr., Thomas Dublin,
Carl E. Prince, and Harry N. Scheiber.
Available from Amazon.com.

New England Poetry Engagement Book

Published by Yellow Umbrella Press, 1980-1983-1984.
ISBN: 0942654005
With E. Linder.
Available from Barnes and Nobles.

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Nonfiction books:

Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City

With Thomas Dublin (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1993).
Published by Diane Pub Co. 1992.
ISBN: 0788148257
Available at at Amazon.com.

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Poetry collections:

  • Rosemont Stars: Selected Poems
    • To be published by Le Temps Volé Éditeur (bilingual edition).
  • Hit Singles
  • Middle Distance
    • Published by Loom Press, 1989.
    • ISBN: 0931507049
    • Available on Amazon.com.
  • Apples and Oranges
    • Published by Loom Press, 1986
    • ISBN: 0931507022
    • Available on Amazon.com
  • Strong Place: Poems ‘74 - ‘84
    • Published by Loom Press, 1st ed edition (November 1, 1984)
    • ISBN: 0931507006
    • Available on Amazon.com
  • Focus on a Locus: Lowell Poems
    • Published by Yellow Umbrella Press, 1980
    • ASIN: B0006E2LK2
    • Available on Amazon.com

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Poems

In the following journals, magazines, and newspapers:
  • Carolina Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Fan: A Baseball Magazine, Sport Literate, Steak Haché (Canada), The River Review/La Revue Rivière, The Acre, Salamander, Architrave, Zone 3, Red Brick Review, Lowell Review, Meantime, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Peninsula Review, Kennebec, Rockhurst Review, Santa Clara Review, The Salmon International Literary Quarterly (Ireland), Bohemian (Japan), South Coast Poetry Journal, Appalachia, Beat Scene (England),West Branch, keep off the grass, Soundings East, This Time, Aspect, Alchemy, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Tightrope, Point West, vyü, The Larcom Review: A Journal of New England Literatur, and Potato Eyes.

In the following anthologies:

  • Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems
    Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
  • Heartbeat of New England: An Anthology of Contemporary Nature Poems
    Published by Tiger Moon, 2000.
  • Place of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry
    Published by Storyline, 2000.
  • The First Yes: Poems About Communication
    Published by Dryad Press & ASHA, 1996.
  • For a Living: The Poetry of Work
    Published by University of Illinois Press, 1995.
  • Ad Hoc Monadnock
    Published by Monadnock Writers’ Group, 1995.
  • The Continuing Revolution: A History of Lowell, Massachusetts
    Published by Lowell Historical Society, 1991.
  • Wisconsin Review: 25th Anniversary
    Published by University of Wisconsin, 1991.
  • Lives in Translation: An Anthology of Contemporary Franco-American Writings Published by Soleil Press, 1990.
  • Quebec Kerouac Blues
    Published by Ecrits des Forges, 1989.

In the following books:

  • Climbing the Tenement Stairs
    A prose poem in Monuments and Memory by Martha Norkunas.
    Published by Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
  • Parlez-vous?
    An excerpt in The Belles of New England by William Moran.
    Published by St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
  • Multicultural Books To Make and Share by Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
    Published by Scholastic Professional Books, 1994.
  • There is a Cricket in My Blood
    Toward a Personal Poetic Evolution, by Doug Flaherty.
    Published by University of Wisconsin English Department, 1997.

On compact disc:

  • “Kerouac Fan” and “Glory Temple”
    On Spirit: Celebrating Jack Kerouac (Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!, 2001).

Online:

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The Bridge Review: Merrimack Valley Culture

Paul Marion is co-editor of The Bridge Review, an on-line journal about the culture of the Greater Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Based at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the journal publishes writing, visual art, music, video clips, essays, and other creative and scholarly works relevant to the bio-region.. Paul's contributions are:

Poems Niederngasse

Paul Marion's articles and poems can also be found on Poems Niederngasse, a Web magazine based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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