Poetry of the Path train @ Baristaville

The kind folks over at Baristanet posted a link and published Even Prisoners Get Lunch, a poem from Voices on the Bus by Anthony Buccino.

One of two comments on the post was favorable.

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Copyright © 2009 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.

Three collections of essays by Anthony Buccino are now available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection;
Sister Dressed Me Funny;
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time

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Voices On The Bus - Published

Voices on the Bus is now available for preview and purchase.

Commuting daily on the bus, train, subway or PATH, one settles into a routine of familiar seating and faces. You can stare out the window listening to your own music, or read a book, or write poems about the experience. This is the latter.

Working class verse and tales, musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New Jersey.






Copyright © 2008 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.

Three collections of essays by Anthony Buccino are now available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection;
Sister Dressed Me Funny;
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Carnival

Revised TOC

VOICES ON THE BUS Train, subway, sidewalk

Out The Window
To Maria On The PATH
Waiting For The Bus
Grove Street Sunrise
Ninety-three Hoover
Murray the Ground Hog
The Seventy-four Runs Through It
Branch Brook
Handcar
Riding Backwards
Preacher Man
Mr. Tourette’s
Mind the Gap
Jackson Wanna Be
Poor Bishop
Cubic Yards
Fraternity Rock
Casino Arena
Even Prisoners Get Lunch
The Bootch
NY Water Taxi
White Knuckle Traveler
Voices On The Bus
Sometimes On The Train

Of course, some things are subject to change, so who really knows how many of these thirty-one pieces of poety will be around when the final book goes to press.

LIST EDITED 6/23/08 - CAN YOU TELL WHAT'S MISSING?
re-edited sometime in July


Copyright © 2008 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved. Content may not be used without written permission.

Three collections of essays by Anthony Buccino are now available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection;
Sister Dressed Me Funny;
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Carnival

Egrets and Regrets

At recent poetry readings in northern Jersey, I've been delightedly surprised when a poet reads a work and it has to do with commuting. No. Really.

Poets and scribes jot down notes about egrets in the meadows as their train thunders by and about regrets in their heart as the rhythm of the rails leads them to remembering.

Recently, at the Les Malamut Gallery at the Union Public Library, Leona M. Seufert selected pieces to read from her chapbook "From Here To There And Back Again - A Commuter's Journey."

She reminded me of things I've thought and seen as my PATH car rolls east or west.

If you've crossed the Meadowlands in day time, then you've seen what's left of the great glacier. I've written a poem about Fraternity Rock as viewed from the PATH. So, I shouldn't be too surprised to learn that others have written about egrets and regrets.

So, what you have here is the start of my effort to capture the difference from day to day of everyday commuting. In prose poetry, of course.

You may see some new stuff, and some old stuff. But if you commute to work via public transportation, you should see a lot of the familiar you've overlooked.

Voices on the Bus

A book of working class poems about commuting.