River muse
Subtitle: tales from Lowell & the Merrimack Valley
By: Lloyd L. Corricelli & David Daniel, editors
Publisher: Sons of Liberty Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nashua, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781475135329
Subjects: Fiction; American Short stories; American essays
Description: This collection consists of a wide-ranging anthology of stories from various Merrimack Valley area writers, including unpublished works by Jack Kerouac. They deftly illustrate this fact: fertile literary imaginations continue to grow along the Merrimack River Valley. The writers in these pages, grounded in a literary tradition as deep as those along the Hudson River Valley and the Connecticut River Valley, reflect a uniquely modern aspect of the New England character, one shaped by grave-yard shifts, neighborhood dives, comic book stores, immigrants, and railroad yards. Their stories give us the unvarnished life of a people and a place steeped in lore yet brimming with new mysteries. In doing so, they herald the region's latest revival.
Notes: Foreword by Martin T. Meehan, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Lowell written February 2012.

"Includes previously unpublished works by Jack Kerouac."
Table of contents: title: The Place Imagined: Fiction. Latin Kings / Jay Atkinson ; Call me Jack / Steven Lee Beeber ; The afterlife / Charlie Bevis ; Talking frustrated rock star blues / Mark Burns ; E. Christopher Clark ; Russians, runaways & The Raven / Lloyd L. Corricelli ; The quiet hours / J.F. Dacey ; Collecting / David Daniel ; Bopha / Judith Dickerman Nelson ; His lover / Andre Dubus ; Wheeling, dealing & reeling / Peter Eliopoulos ; Mr. Veston / Dan Graffeo ; The stuff of dreams / Jacquelyn Malone ; The machines we tend / Beverly A. McCoy ; Red shoes / Stephen O'Connor ; Chantal / Bob Sanchez ; Crystalwood, a Lowell romance / Joshua Shapiro.; title: The Place Experienced: Memoir and History. The sweet sting / Jerry Bisantz ; I was a teenage bibliophile / Pierre Comtois ; Queen slipper city of the world / Andre Dubus III ; New England Girlhood / Lucy Larcom ; Cut from American cloth / Paul Marion ; Barber shops / Henri Marchand ; Waiting for the fllood / Henri Marchand ; Mother & son / Chath pierSath ; Hypocrisy / Kassie Rubico ; The mascot / Chaz Scoggins ; Lower Belvidere / Tom Sexton ; Pappy's / Kenneth Tingle.; title: The Place Inspired: Poetry, Essay & Journalism. Open letter to the new millennial man / Cesar Sanchez Beras ; American notes for general circulation / Charles Dickens ; Psalms / Jack Kerouac ; Visions of Dr. Sax / Jack Kerouac ; September 16, 1961 / Jack Kerouac ; RRRon Lessard / David Perry ; For Annie / Edgar Allen Poe ; Lines on Ale / Edgar Allen Poe ; Summertime in a mill city / Sebastian Sampas ; A young poet remembers Lowell / Sebastian Sampas ; Ed McMahon stayed true to his Lowell roots / Nancye Tuttle ; What stories she can tell / Nancye Tuttle.