AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty, now on sale

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

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

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.

ISBN 0982567707
ISBN 9780982567708

I
RUMOURS OF WAR
COWBOY OF OCTOBER
WATER FROM A GARDEN HOSE
MILKWEED
CAROMS
TELEVISION ENDING
SATURDAY TV
COWBOY
BUTCH
BOYS IN THE WOODS
HOT LUNCH
BUG JUICE
AMERICAN BOY
NAMES
MONEY IN NEWSPAPERS
NEEDLE
LEGLESS
SOMETIMES I SWEAR IN ITALIAN
FACCIA BRUTE
DEAR OLD MAN
GAMES WE PLAYED
THAT FIRST KISS
BAD BOYS
KILLER JOE
OLD MAN

II
SILENT TALK
TRAVELS
THE CAFETERIA
ALL THE BEST FOODS
FORGOTTEN DREAMS
SILENT SOUNDS
SURPRISE
NO TIME FOR OOPS
CLASS
EVERYTHING HURTS
CURSE OF THE BUTTONS
VANISHING WORDS
SANDWICHED
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER
YOU WANT TO KNOW OLD
YOUNGER MAN’S CLOTHES
SHOELACES
CRAYONS
FIFTY-TWO
MIRROR
RUBBER TIRES
JOB ROCK
QUIET ONE
LAST LAUGH
BIRTHDAY POEM

III
PINKY
IN MY ROOM
CONFETTI
TOWN PUB
LAST DOG
DEAR ROY
DO OVER

IV
WHAT’S WRONG
PUSHING SIXTY
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE
WHAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND
MARCIA
ONE TRUE LOVE
DO NOT THINK

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BIRTHDAY POEM published in Medusa’s Kitchen

EVERYTHING HURTS, ALL THE BEST FOODS, and WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE published in Rattlesnake Review (Poetry With Fangs)

HOT LUNCH, AMERICAN BOY and DO NOT THINK published in Poem Factory

OLD MAN published in Raving Dove

YOUNGER MAN’S CLOTHES published in The Edison Literary Review

SILENT TALK published in Journal of New Jersey Poets

TOWN PUB published in LIPS