CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed
Anthony Buccino’s new collection “CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed” (Cherry Blossom Press, 68 pages, $15.00, ISBN 978-0-9825677-3-9) is a must-have for anyone who deals in human resources, personnel, recruitment, job placement, or has been fired, laid-off and is out of work.
Buccino’s straight-forward non-rhyming verse cuts straight to the strains that tag along when one is out of work, and captures the feeling of the sinking boat you feel you're riding in. This collection deals with a difficult subject in a very real way. Its strength is its realness and that is also its greatest weakness. It's not for the faint of heart.
Of nine jobs in 25 years, Buccino quit four for something better, got fired three times and laid-off twice. No matter how much time passes, the scars of being booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed or suddenly out of work sting the same now as the moment the finger pointed to the door.
If you find yourself out of work whether it’s the first time or the fifth time, know you are not alone, Buccino says.
Maybe you'll look back after 25 years and say, getting fired from that job was the best thing that ever happened in my life. Or maybe not. “It never gets easier,” says Buccino.
Hands In Socks was named Editor’s Choice in the 2008 ALLEN GINSBERG POETRY AWARDS, and appears in Paterson Literary Review #38. Ten Minutes was named Honorable Mention in the 2009 ALLEN GINSBERG POETRY AWARDS, and appears in Paterson Literary Review#39.
Buccino, a New Jersey native, has published ten books, including these poetry collections: Sixteen Inches On Center; AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty; Retrieving Labrador Days, Dog Tales In Prose and Verse; Voices on the Bus, train, subway, sidewalk and in my head; 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; Rattlesnake Review (Poetry With Fangs); Medusa’s Kitchen; Voices in Italian Americana; Edison Literary Review; Journal of New Jersey Poets; LIPS; U.S. 1 Worksheets, Poetry Quarterly, CHEST, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians; The Idiom; MEWS; Raving Dove; More Sweet Lemons; The Poem Factory; and PowWow Review.
Buccino created and maintains the New Jersey Poets and Poetry blog at http://njpoetspoetry.blogspot.com/ , a continuing listing of poets and poetry news and events.
A NYC financial news editor by day, Buccino nonetheless writes with humor on his many feature length blog posts on NJ.com, in essays and in poetry. He has been called “New Jersey’s ‘Garrison Keillor’” or something to that effect.’
Buccino published 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. For more information, visit http://www.anthonybuccino.com/ .
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“CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed” (Cherry Blossom Press, 68 pages, $15.00, ISBN 978-0-9825677-3-9)
http://www.anthonybuccino.com/canned.html
