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Anthony Buccino
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Italian American Heritage Sometimes I Swear In Italian
Anthony Buccino's latest collection
Sometimes I Swear In Italian is about growing up Italian
American in America. Buccino’s verse captures the assimilation of an
Italian American born and raised in New Jersey who becomes truly
inspired by a trip to Italy. There he realizes how at home he feels
so far away. Read about the old neighborhood where the 'bianca
lina' man sold bleach to make the white linens, the young boy
growing up in the house his grandfather built, and living upstairs
from his scary grandma who spoke no English. This American boy
discovers the land his ancestors left to make a better life for him
and his generation. Despite its title, Sometimes I Swear In Italian
contains no profanity in any language. In print on
Amazon and on Kindle.
Ordinary folks risked all saving
strangers
The true story of how nearly 40,000 Jews in Italy "If only this kitchen could
talk!" Aunt Connie said when I visited her in April. Andrew Pagliaro died April 22, last week. He was 93 years old. I never got to talk to him before he died. I have a couple of letters he sent me a couple of years ago. At Spatola's Home For Funerals Harry was four years old when his dad died in a coal mine cave-in in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Harry was the youngest of eight children, the oldest was barely a teenager. That was February 1929. In the Florida room of Uncle Bim's home in Florida, I finally asked him how he came to be called "Bim." After all, my research had shown that his real name was Donato which he had Americanized to Daniel. But everybody called him "Uncle Bim" for 80 years. Why? Growing up on the border line of
Belleville and Nutley, the children in my neighborhood along Meacham
Street knew that when we grew old we would speak Italian. It was as
obvious as all of those gray-haired relatives who came to call spoke
the dialect. Italian-American roots in Belleville, Nutley Buccino wins UNICO National awardRecommended reading Italian American and other topics Italian American Writers' Association Sgt. John BasiloneItalian American hero Heritage Preservation Associates Italian American LinksItalian American One Voice Coalition THE ITALIAN VOICE
Italian American Network A channel for all things Italian Italy With Us an ezine for lovers of Italy. Tour Italy Access Italy provides private and exclusive tours throughout Italy. Virtual Italia -sharing Italian culture with the world Links subject to change. BOOKSWhat We Pass On: Collected Poems: 1980-2009 Italian Women In Black Dresses Taking Back My Name Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits 1972-2002 Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Essays on Her Works, a book edited by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Italian American Writers On New Jersey Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American * * * * * * * * * * Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies * * * * * * * * * * A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems Boy On A Swing and Other Poems Promising the Moon - poems by Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci * * * * * * * * * * Una Storia Segreta - Lawrence DiStasi Finding Italian Roots by John Philip Colletta They Came In Ships by John P. Colletta * * * * * * * * * * In The Garden of Papa Santuzzu by Tony Ardizzone Taking It Home - Stories from the Neighborhood by Tony Ardizzone * * * * * * * * * * Don't Tell Mama Regina Barreca Moustache Pete Is Dead! - Fred L. Gardaphe Dances with Luigi - Paul Paolicelli
La Storia,
Five Centuries of the Italian-American Experience The Humble and the Heroic Wartime Italian Americans by Salvatore LaGumina Memoirs of Lt. Camillo Viglino, Italian Air Force 1915-1916 * * * * * * * * * * Italian Americans in World War II - Peter L. Belmonte Blood of My Blood - Richard Gambino Mount Allegro - Jerry Mangione ROSA The Life of an Italian Immigrant by Marie Hall Ets Ciao, America - Beppe Severgnini Italian Stories - stories by Joseph Papaleo Were You Always an Italian? by Maria Laurino Blood Autumn, Autunno di Sangue by Daniela Gioseffi Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing by Robert Viscusi Low Italian by George Guida Sometimes I Dream In Italian - Rita Ciresi The Last Cannoli - Camille Cusumano Recipes My Nonna Taught Me - by Francena Growing Up Italian by Linda Brandi Cateura Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo The Last Cannoli - Camille Cusumano The Altar Boy Chronicles by Tony Pasquarello With Heart and Soul - Calgary's Italian Community by Antonella Fanella * * * * * * * * * * Links subject to change.
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Where My Work Has Appeared
The Wall St Journal
Dow Jones Newswires NJ.Com - NJ Voices Patch.com Baristanet.com The Nutley Sun The Belleville Times The Independent Press of Bloomfield The Glen Ridge Paper The Nutley Journal The Belleville Post New Jersey Monthly Essex Journal Modern Food Service Magazine Paterson Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Rattlesnake Review, Medusa's Kitchen, Voices In Italian Americana, Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, CHEST, The Idiom, Fox Chase Review, Up & Under, Caduceus, South Mountain Poets Anthology, MEWS, LIPS, More Sweet Lemons, The Poem Factory, On The Quiet Side, PowWow Review and other places, too! |
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About Me I've been a writer and editor since 1984, having worked at a national and state trade association, a regional trade newspaper, community newspapers and a national business newswire. I've published three books of essays based in and around life and growing up in New Jersey over the past 50 years. You can find me on Facebook and Linkedin Copyright © 1995-2011 By Anthony Buccino. All
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