Three Buccino paperbacks added to Amazon.com

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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.




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.
From the center of the Baby Boom, this working class verse begins under a wooden class room desk as an air raid siren sounds, and captures the summer spell and its simplicity in drinking water from a garden hose.

"I read your book through and through twice. Absolutely enjoyed it. Your words flow so freely." 

Retrieving Labrador Days: Dog tales in prose and verse 

Stories 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.

Contains the Pushcart Prize-nominated poem At The Vet. 

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The Observer: Turning unemployment into an art form

The Observer, Entertainment and Dining

Turning unemployment into an art form

by Karen Zautyk
Senior Correspondent

Anthony Buccino of Nutley is not now unemployed. In fact, he has held his job as a business news editor in New York for the last 11 years. However, in the course of 25 years...

May 19, 2010.

Pages 11 and 13

Theobserver.com

AMERICAN BOY - a review

The folks at Small Press Reviews have a few words to say about AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty, by Anthony Buccino

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Buccino in Belleville Times

Native publishes new collection
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Last updated: Thursday April 15, 2010, 3:18 AM
Belleville Times

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Anthony Buccino's new collection "American Boy: Pushing Sixty, working class verse about life and growing up in New Jersey" (Cherry Blossom Press, 68 pages, $14.95, ISBN 9780982567708) recalls the cold war, parochial school and simply playing with friends or with his "little men" in the Baby Boomer years.

"Much of the work collected here reflects on growing up in Belleville and growing old in Nutley," he said.

From the center of the Baby Boom, his verse views life and growing up in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and growing older in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

"Rumours of War" reflects on those air raid drills from Holy Family School, and "Caroms" recalls playing that game and losing a smallest puppy contest at Booth Park in the summer. "Games We Played" hints of those rounds of endless Monopoly games.

But like anyone born in Baby Boom years, from 1946 to 1964, the writing on the wall says some of us have already reached sixty and others, like Buccino are pushing sixty.

"Now's a good time to put a life in perspective," said Buccino. "The way things keep going, and medicines keep improving, sixty just might be middle age for many of us. But this collection stops to look at how life's been so far. The good times, though not a lot of poets write about the good times, and the heartaches and how we're doing so far."

A New York City financial news editor by day, Buccino has been called "New Jersey's 'Garrison Keillor'" or something to that effect.' He published three books of essays based in and around Nutley and Belleville. He published two books of biographies of the hundreds of men from his home towns who died while in service.

Buccino published two collections of poetry, "Voices on the Bus" and "One Morning in Jersey City." He has been published in Paterson Literary Review; Celebrating William Carlos Williams and The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry; Voices in Italian Americana; Edison Literary Review, and Journal of New Jersey Poets.

Buccino created and maintains the New Jersey Poets and Poetry blog at http://njpoetspoetry.blog-spot.com/ , a continuing listing of poets and poetry news and events.

For more information, visit http://www.anthonybuccino.com/.

AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty

Copies of the new poetry collection by Anthony Buccino are available at
AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty

AMERICAN BOY - The Poem Factory

Hot Lunch and American Boy by Anthony Buccino
were published by The Poem Factory, Poems Made Here - POETS OF AUTUMN