The Observer on Buccino's poetry

The Observer, Entertainment and Dining

Turning unemployement 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, he had held nine jobs: quitting four for something better, getting fired three times and laid off twice...."

May 19, 2010.
Pages 11 and 13

TheObserver.com

AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty - reviewed

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AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty

Anthony Buccino's new poetry collection is available at
AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty

This new collection of working class verse views life and growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and growing older in the 1980s, 1990s and the oughts.

ISBN 0982567707
ISBN 9780982567708

Anthony Buccino published two collections of poetry in 2008.

Voices on the Bus collects his poems written while commuting from northeastern Essex County to Jersey City, N.J.

One Morning in Jersey City collects his poems written in and around Jersey City and sitting along the Hudson River, often at lunch time.

His poems "Hands In Socks" was named Editor's Choice in 2008 Allen Ginsberg Awards. "Ten Minutes" was Honorable Mention in 2009 Allen Ginsberg Awards.

He has written three books of essays based in and around Nutley and Belleville, N.J. He published two books of biographies of the hundreds of men from his home towns who died while in service.