Lockdown Letters & Other Poems - Softcover

Paul Marion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735168947 ISBN 13: 9781735168944

Publisher: Loom Press, 2021

Synopsis

Opening with a response to the Covid\-19 pandemic, Lockdown Letters \x26 Other Poems ranges near and far in the author\x27s catalogue. While spared the devastating effects of the disease, he offers a view of the way daily life changes and new risks are confronted as people try to maintain routines. The book shifts to work inspired by travel\-local, global, and beyond\-routes giving rise to memorable observations and insights. More place poems and a cycle of sports pieces round out the volume, with its theme of home\-and\-away.

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About the Author

Paul Marion (b. 1954) is the author of Union River: Poems and Sketches (2017) and editor of Jack Kerouacs early writing, Atop an Underwood (1999). His book Mill Power (2014) documents the twentieth-century revival of the iconic factory city where he was born, Lowell, Massachusetts. With Tina Neylon and John Wooding, he edited Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell (2020), featuring writers from Ireland and America. His recent work has appeared in So It Goes, the journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library in Indiana; Café Review in Portland, Maine; PoetsReadingtheNews.org, a national online publication; SpoKe Seven, a Boston-based poetry annual; Résonance, a Franco-American journal at UMaine Orono; and Merrimack Valley Magazine. With his wife, Rosemary Noon, he lives on a high hill in Amesbury, Mass., in sight of the seacoast and uplands of New Hampshire and Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Loom Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735168947
• ISBN 13: 9781735168944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192