Canned in a plain brown wrapper

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 – a poetry collection 
By Anthony Buccino

The hard-hitting truth about being out of work, the strains that tag along and the sinking boat you feel you're riding in. This collection deals with a difficult subject in a very real way. It's strength is its realness and that is also its greatest weakness. It's not for the faint of heart. 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.

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Ten Minutes After You're Gone

Honorable Mention – 2009 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards

TEN MINUTES  by Anthony Buccino

Ten minutes after you're gone
scavengers raid your old desk.
Who takes the stapler
Who takes the tape
Who splits with the Post-its
and who grabs the letter opener?

Who take the box of staples 
in the drawer with the binder clips?
Who fights over your old pens, 
even the ones that don't work?
Who grabs your office stationery 
and rubber stamp collection,
your used Emory board 
and the good scissors?
Who rifles your drawers for matches,
loose change and one-cent stamps?

Who trashes your kid's picture 
and walks off with the glass frame?
Who grabs the blank white cards
from your old Rolodex?
Who fills your pencil holder 
with salt and pepper packets
and slithers away?

Who takes your broken key chain, 
the open deck of cards
the pocket calculator 
and so many little pieces of junk 
with other companies' names?
Who takes your reference books
and the good dictionary, too?

Wait till they find what you left
behind in the fridge.
Ten minutes after you're gone
no one remembers your name.

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First published in Paterson Literary Review

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
by Anthony Buccino

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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

Non-rhyming verse about being out of work, the strains that tag along and the sinking boat you feel you're riding in.

This collection deals with a difficult subject in a very real way. It's strength is its realness and that is also its greatest weakness. It's not for the faint of heart.

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.

Order Info here

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"onto your poetry i LOVE it fixing the roof, hierarchy of the seagulls, tell the wife, the old guys hated me - i could really go on and on anthony. you captured a moment, a feeling and i have not read such raw and real poetry in some time. I know we separated by a few generations (I am 31) but you really capture what is missing from the alleged poets and those who are suspected of being poets that I have any contact with say they are all about. CANNED is a wonderful book that is relevant today tomorrow yesterday, yesteryear - as for me, i will be keeping the copy of CANNED ... in my bag (which I take everywhere with me) so I can re-read it and share with others. I don't usually praise many writers - in fact I think most are self indulgent sots who care nothing about the medium - but this is great work."

And another:

"Your poetry is the best journalism I’ve read in quite some time. I am about halfway through the book (I was reading it over breakfast on my screened porch this morning) and my favorite so far is “Forced Out,” with that spinning wheel – my situation almost exactly."

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CANNED poetry collection book launch Saturday

Anthony Buccino will sign copies of his latest book

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

at 

2 p.m., on Saturday, June 26, at

The Stuffed Cupcake-TM, 231 Franklin Avenue, Nutley, N.J.

Fans can pick up a few signed-books for summer reads and gifts and bring home some fabulous, world-famous, stuffed cupcakes.

Mark your calendars today!

A limited supply of Buccino's eleven books in print will be available ... on a first-come, first-sold basis. 

The Observer, an article

The Observer, Entertainment and Dining

Turning Unemployment Into An Art Form

by Karen Zautyk

May 19, 2010.

Pages 11 and 13

Theobserver.com

Now in print - order your copies now

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

Non-rhyming verse about being out of work, the strains that tag along and the sinking boat you feel you're riding in.

This collection deals with a difficult subject in a very real way. It's strength is its realness and that is also its greatest weakness. It's not for the faint of heart.

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.

Order your copies here

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Rough Cover for CANNED

... US Jobless Claims Fall Slightly, Inflation Stays Flat … 15 million people unemployed – 40% of them out of work for more than six months … Canada Jobless Rate Drops To 8.2%, 10-Month Low … Waiting For Return To Normal On Jobless Claims … U.S. News Jobless Claims Fall; Productivity Rises---Employers Squeezing More Output From Existing Workers, as Labor Market Lags Rest of Economy … French Jobless Rate Up In 4Q; Reaches 10% … Greece Sees Jobless Around 11% 2010 From 9.9% In 2009 … Bullard: Jobless Rate Will 'Tick Down' Modestly In Spring … US Undergoing A "Jobless Recovery" Now … US Jobless Claims -5K To 457K In Mar 13 Week … US Mar 6 Week Jobless Claims Unrevised At 462K … US Jobless Claims -5K To 457K In Mar 13 Wk; Survey -7K … US House Approves Short-Term Extension Of Jobless Benefits … Jobless Recovery in the U.S. Leaving Trail of Recession-Weary Employees in Its Wake ... FOMC: Businesses Spending Significantly More, Not Hiring ... Ford To Begin Hiring At New Lower Wages … Silicon Valley Employers Anticipate Hiring Increase in Q1 … Uncertainty Holds Back Hiring, Investment By Business-US Chamber … Obama: Must Explore Every Avenue To Boost Hiring … Looking At Hiring, There's Not Much To Look At … Firing Has Definitely Slowed, But Hiring In Limbo ...