Rambling Round [Paperback]

Anthony Buccino (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401029124
• ISBN-13: 978-1401029128
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,140,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ANTHONY BUCCINO has published thirteen books including these poetry collections: Canned, Yountakah Country, Retrieving Labrador Days, Sixteen Inches On Center, AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty, Voices On The Bus and One Morning In Jersey City.

His other books are Rambling Round, Sister Dressed Me Funny and A Father's Place.

He has written three books about local military history: Belleville Sons Honor Roll, Nutley Sons Honor Roll and Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War.

All his titles are available in print and on Kindle.

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.

His poem Something Tells Me You Went To Catholic School was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2010 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Hands In Socks was named Editor's Choice in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Awards. Ten Minutes earned Honorable Mention in the 2009 Allen Ginsberg Awards.

His work has been published in Paterson Literary Review; Celebrating William Carlos Williams and The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry; Rattlesnake Review (Poetry With Fangs); Medusa's Kitchen; Voices in Italian Americana; Edison Literary Review; Journal of New Jersey Poets; CHEST, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians; The Idiom; MEWS; Raving Dove; More Sweet Lemons; The Poem Factory; and PowWow Review.

His first poetry chapbook, Days You Knew Me, was published in 1976.
Buccino has written three books of essays based in and around Nutley and Belleville, N.J. He published two biographies of the men from his home towns who died while in service.

His personal essays earned him the nickname ''New Jersey's 'Garrison Keillor' or something to that effect." He is a contributing writer at NJ Voices and writes about transit in New Jersey, both at NJ.Com.

Buccino has been published in New Jersey Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, the Passaic Herald News, New Jersey Federated Sportsmen, Italian Tribune, Behind The Lines and other publications. He served as editor at New Jersey Motor Truck Association, a state trade association, Beauty & Barber Supply Institute, a national trade association, and of Modern Food Service Magazine, a regional magazine.

He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, New Jersey Chapter. The author attended Montclair State College where he majored in English and minored in journalism. Buccino is a financial news editor in New York City.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing it all back home, December 9, 2002

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alfred sullivan (hoboken, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rambling Round (Paperback)

For anyone like me who grew up in New Jersey, this book will touch special buttons that many readers elsewhere won't feel as deeply. Yet to truly understand what life was like in this part of the country during a particular time period, no one should fail to read this book -- for it captures a sense of then and now like few other books on New Jersey can, dealing with the minute details most writers miss, playfully mocking the silly routines our generation adopted, painfully expressing the great sadness for an innocence lost.
As a journalist covering people and events in New Jersey, I have written about the outside of such events, Buccino gets inside of them and makes the reader relive those moments through his senses and memory.

5.0 out of 5 stars Rambling Round, May 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Rambling Round (Paperback)

I was born and raised in belleville. Anthony was able to capture the essence of a belleville childhood in the 1960's and teen years of the early 70's. Times were spent with family and your best friends. There was "nothing like" a saturday football game. I would recommend this book to all belleville high school graduates.... it made me smile..

5.0 out of 5 stars Do Yourself a Big Favor: Buy Buccino's Book!, May 4, 2002

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Salvatore Buttaci "Salvatore Buttaci, author ... (Princeton, WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rambling Round (Paperback)

As an avid reader and writer of nonfiction, I know what I like. I can tell from the first page whether it's a go or a throw-down.
Believe me, RAMBLING ROUND is a go-go-go! Remember the old review cliche: "I couldn't put the book down"? You'll find that happens when you begin reading RAMBLING AROUND. True-life experiences from the everyday rountine to serious matters like marriage and raising a daughter will put you in stitches and keep you there till you begin the next story. The book is a continous joyride you'll find yourself recommending to everybody in need of lots of good laughs and brilliant insights. I cannot say enough in praise of Buccino's new book!