No other post-war American writer has exerted such a direct influence on the feeling for language found in our most adventurous contemporary poets as has Jack Kerouac. As homage to a writing hero, and as catalyst for their own work, the authors of Lowell Connector made several trips to Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. The procedure was to visit specific sights described in Kerouac's work, taking in the homes, haunts, schools and literary memorials as a kind of memory protein in the activation of their own work. What results is a completely stimulating collaborative effort in which the spirit of Kerouac lives again.

"It's at home we win" – Jack Kerouac