Collected Verse in Eight Volumes

By Anthony Buccino


1977: 'Anthony, you're a romantic poet.'

2008: 'Anthony, you write working class poetry.'

Collected Verse by Anthony Buccino, 8 volumes

All right, seven and a half volumes. These collections of working class poetry arose from the author's second most prolific verse creating era. Enjoy.

American Boy: Pushing Sixty 

Canned

One Morning in Jersey City

Retrieving Labrador Days

Sixteen Inches On Center

Sometimes I Swear In Italian

Voices on the Bus

Yountakah Country - A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New


Retrieving Labrador Days by Anthony Buccino, stories and verse

Retrieving Labrador Days

Stories and verse about each of his three Labrador retrievers and some of the other dogs and people whose lives they touched. Shaggy dogs, mutts, mongrels, three Labrador retrievers and a pet rabbit inspire the stories and poems in this collection. Pets of one kind or another have shared the past six decades of the author's life, and here are some stories that will make you laugh out loud and others that remind you of the escapades and exasperations you've been through with your pets. Essays and Verse


American Boy: Pushing Sixty by Anthony Buccino

American Boy: Pushing Sixty 

About life and growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s,1960s, and 1970s, and growing older in the 1980s, 1990s and the oughts. 


Canned booted bumped down-sized fired forced out, by Anthony Buccino

Canned - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed

The hard-hitting truth about being out of work, the strains that tag along and the sinking boat you feel you're riding in. This collection deals with a difficult subject in a very real way. It's strength is its realness and that is also its greatest weakness. It's not for the faint of heart. A must-have for anyone who deals in human resources, personnel, recruitment, job placement, or has been fired, laid-off and is out of work.


Sixteen Inches on Center By Anthony Buccino

Sixteen Inches On Center

Father viewed through a grown son's eyes. Seeing a father through a grown son's eyes. The son of a World War II veteran looks at the 20-plus years they had together, the missteps the missed opportunities, and the things that remain.


Sometimes I Swear in Italian by Anthony Buccino

Sometimes I Swear In Italian

Sometimes I Swear In Italian is about growing up Italian American in New Jersey and discovering the roots of his ancestors. Read about the old neighborhood where the bianca lina man sold bleach to make the white linens; and the young boy growing up in the house his grandfather built, and living upstairs from his scary grandma who spoke no English. This American boy discovers the land his ancestors left to make a better life for his generation. The pigeons that follow him throughout Italy provide the connection to his father - who raised homers - who didn't speak English until he started school - the rich heritage of the old country, and the enormous sacrifice of his grandparents. Despite its title, Sometimes I Swear In Italian contains no profanity in any language.


One morning in Jersey City, verse by Anthony Buccino

One Morning in Jersey City

Verse written along the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. You can hear a lot by looking around. Sometimes, standing along the Hudson River shoreline, you can dream of the freedom in the sailing beauty slipping through the waves, or question the signals proffered by a hungry seagull, or ponder why the pigeons follow you. Or you could sit ever so still and listen to the clatter of heels on the tile as the cigarette mafia heads outside for fresh air. 


Voices on the bus, train, subway, sidewalk and in my head  by Anthony Buccino

Voices on the Bus, train, subway, sidewalk and in my head

Verse  about commuting in Northern New Jersey. Feel the rhythm of the rails as you travel the last days of the Newark City Subway, or the PATH, and be relieved you are not present to hear the Preacher Man or Mr. Tourette's but do listen for the noise above the hum of the wheels and turn your ear to the voices on the bus, train or standing nearby on the platform. 


Yountakah Country - A Poetic View of Nutley Old and New by Anthony Buccino

Yountakah Country - A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New

Local writer takes some history, some folk lore and some current news and mixes them together in this humorous and thoughtful collection of verse about the little town in north eastern Essex County. On these pages, Anthony Buccino brings together the Lenni Lenape, Annie Oakley, and pizza wars. 


Buccino Poetry Nominated For Pushcart Prize

The poetry editors for Volume 55 of U.S. 1 Worksheets, Betty Lies, Linda Arntzenius and Wanda Praisner have nominated Anthony Buccino's poem At The Vet for the Pushcart Prize.


Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards

Anthony Buccino's poem Jersey Geese earned an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His poem will be published in the Paterson Literary Review, Issue #41.

Buccino's poem Something Tells Me You Went To Catholic School earned an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His poem appears in the Paterson Literary Review, Issue #40.

Ten Minutes was named Honorable Mention in the 2009 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. It will be published in the Allen Ginsberg Awards listing in The Paterson Literary Review #39.

Hands In Socks has been selected as an Editor's Choice in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. It is published in the Allen Ginsberg Awards listing in The Paterson Literary Review #38. Snoopy Hat also appears in that issue.


Buccino created New Jersey Poets And Poetry


Hey, that's only seven and a half books!

Thanks for reading this far down. Not available:

Writing My Way Home from the Convent by Anthony Buccino  Saving Pigeons by Anthony Buccino


Cherry Blossom Press

Nonfiction books by Anthony Buccino


Photography

New Orleans, New York, Jersey City, Nutley photo collections by Anthony Buccino

Photo Books
Photo Galleries


Nutley, NJ, Books


Belleville, NJ, Books

Belleville NJ books by Anthony Buccino


Military History

Military History books by Anthony Buccino


Poetry Collections

Eight Poetry Collections by Anthony Buccino

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Buccino's Verse Has Appeared In:

Paterson Literary Review

U.S. 1 Worksheets

 Rattlesnake Review

 Medusa's Kitchen

Voices In Italian Americana

 Edison Literary Review

 Journal of New Jersey Poets

CHEST

The Idiom

Fox Chase Review

Up & Under

 Caduceus

 South Mountain Poets Anthology

MEWS

LIPS

More Sweet Lemons

The Poem Factory

On The Quiet Side

PowWow Review

and other places, too!


Chronology

Sometimes I Swear In Italian (2011)

Yountakah Country, a Poetic View of Nutley Old and New (2010)

CANNED booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed  (2010)

Sixteen Inches on Center (2010)

Retrieving Labrador Days, dog tales in prose and verse (2010)

American Boy, Pushing Sixty (2009)

Voices on the Bus, Train, Subway, Bus and in My Head (2008)

One Morning in Jersey City (2008)

Days You Knew Me (1976)


A Buccino Poem-A-Day


Nobody Reads Poetry Anymore


Buccino's poetry on YouTube


On Poetry - on U.T. blog


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