First lines from Buccino's books

Fingernails scratch the paper,  They point at a blank page.

Days You Knew Me


Well, obviously, it's March. So here on the fourth I sit to finish the note I began five weeks ago...


Just a few hundred years ago/ in the thick green undergrowth/ where the Yanticaw Creek/ meets the wide old Passaic River/ the fish surrendered by jumping/ into hollowed dugout canoes.

YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY - A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New


In the new land it will be better.

Sometimes I Swear In Italian


Being the man of the house carries with it a tremendous amount of responsibility.

Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here Anymore and other essays


In August 1999, I tried out for a new job on the eighth floor of Harborside, a Jersey City building fronting the Hudson River with its back to the sprawling city to the west.

Jersey City Snapshots

Back in the day, our refrigerator's freezer was the size of two ice trays and a pound of chop meat.

Greetings From Belleville - Collected writings


SITTING IN A DESK DRAWER:

Saving pigeons/ that hit the power line:/ Boil water, a needle and thread.

Saving Pigeons


Unfamiliar with words and how to stack them/One upon the other in long strings that make sense,/ She asks me how to write a poem,

Writing My Way Home


You may not know/ to look at them/ but the scavenging seagulls/ circling, whirling overhead/ have a corporate structure.

Hands In Socks


Everywhere you looked in Grandma's yard you saw cats creeping around.

Chasing the Mosquito Man


How could anyone, let alone my older sister, move to a state where you can’t get Taylor ham, good veal cutlets or Brookdale soda?

Bula, Bula, Ashtabula


I never did it on a train before, I’d seen people in movies, they did it on a train or a set supposed to look like a train moving along, as for me, I made it these four decades without ever riding the NYC subway either.

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter


First lines based on first-print (and latest draft) editions


 A Father's Place: An Eclectic Collection by Anthony BuccinoRambling Round by Anthony Buccino  Sister Dressed Me Funny by Anthony Buccino

 

Cherry Blossom Press

Nonfiction books by Anthony Buccino

A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection

Sister Dressed Me Funny

Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse

Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey collected writings

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

Nutley Notables, Volume One

Nutley Notables, Volume Two


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

Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War

 Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

WW2 Letters Home From The South Pacific


Poetry Collections

Eight Poetry Collections by Anthony Buccino


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