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Dust Bunny City
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Dust Bunny City is a story about love and beer and art. A married couple wanders though the city, drinking and talking shit. Later, the wife goes away fro a while and the husband goes to work at an oil refinery and misses her. Words by Bud Smith, drawings by Rae Buleri. A simple walk through Dust Bunny City is sometimes enough to kill the ones you love.
"My heart swelled to three times its size reading DUST BUNNY CITY. Set against the backdrop of a drunk, pulsing city and shimmering with youthful rapture, Bud Smith captures the singular joy of love with a voice as authentic as the feeling. Complimented by his wife Rae Buleri's dreamy line drawings, this book is a sweet celebration of tenderness in a harsh world." - Meredith Alling, author of Sing the Song
"My favorite song lyric is 'Street lights. People,' from Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believing," and so it is with great adoration that I say Bud Smith’s DUST BUNNY CITY reminds me of those words. First off, the book includes both street lights and people. There are few guarantees in life, and this is one. But more than that, the book portrays a quiet, simple joy. Of riding the train. Eating a meal. Waiting for a plane. Sitting on a bench. Tiny moments that, when shared, help define what it means to know another person. There is an unimpeachable intimacy at the heart of this book. Bud Smith’s work in DUST BUNNY CITY brings to mind the best of Richard Brautigan: magic, sweetness and wonder in the corners of a ghostly working-class America, and all the ways ”we try to be gentle, but can’t get it right.” - Dolan Morgan, author of Insignificana
"DUST BUNNY CITY is a lot of things: poetry and visions and winks and inside jokes and love. Bud Smith is in the blood of it all, a loose radical of a man capturing what so many probably never see and giving us these gifts. "You tell me that story every time we're drunk here," is a succinct and true bell ringer. I'd listen to Bud Smith tell me these things over and over again. Don't forget about Bud Smith, because he isn't going to forget about you." - Sean H. Doyle, author of This Must Be the Place
Dust Bunny City is a story about love and beer and art. A married couple wanders though the city, drinking and talking shit. Later, the wife goes away fro a while and the husband goes to work at an oil refinery and misses her. Words by Bud Smith, drawings by Rae Buleri. A simple walk through Dust Bunny City is sometimes enough to kill the ones you love.
"My heart swelled to three times its size reading DUST BUNNY CITY. Set against the backdrop of a drunk, pulsing city and shimmering with youthful rapture, Bud Smith captures the singular joy of love with a voice as authentic as the feeling. Complimented by his wife Rae Buleri's dreamy line drawings, this book is a sweet celebration of tenderness in a harsh world." - Meredith Alling, author of Sing the Song
"My favorite song lyric is 'Street lights. People,' from Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believing," and so it is with great adoration that I say Bud Smith’s DUST BUNNY CITY reminds me of those words. First off, the book includes both street lights and people. There are few guarantees in life, and this is one. But more than that, the book portrays a quiet, simple joy. Of riding the train. Eating a meal. Waiting for a plane. Sitting on a bench. Tiny moments that, when shared, help define what it means to know another person. There is an unimpeachable intimacy at the heart of this book. Bud Smith’s work in DUST BUNNY CITY brings to mind the best of Richard Brautigan: magic, sweetness and wonder in the corners of a ghostly working-class America, and all the ways ”we try to be gentle, but can’t get it right.” - Dolan Morgan, author of Insignificana
"DUST BUNNY CITY is a lot of things: poetry and visions and winks and inside jokes and love. Bud Smith is in the blood of it all, a loose radical of a man capturing what so many probably never see and giving us these gifts. "You tell me that story every time we're drunk here," is a succinct and true bell ringer. I'd listen to Bud Smith tell me these things over and over again. Don't forget about Bud Smith, because he isn't going to forget about you." - Sean H. Doyle, author of This Must Be the Place
- GenresPoetry
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
79 people want to read
About the author
Bud Smith
17 books477 followersBud Smith is the author of Teenager (Tyrant Book), Double Bird (Maudlin House), WORK (CCM), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press), among others. He works heavy construction, and lives in Jersey City, NJ.
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Displaying 1 - 11 of 11 reviews
April 1, 2017
giving this five stars because it's about the time that me and Rae went drinking around the city and then later she went away and I missed her, and then later later later I got her to draw some pictures about it all and we made a book
April 14, 2017
Charming collection of stories, poems and illustrations that captures the feeling of being both in love and alone. I love how the different parts of the book communicate with each other to create a portrait of the city in all of its pitiless humor.
July 12, 2017
Bud Smith & Rae Buleri make me happy to be a human at the same time as them!!! Bud's poems are visceral, beautiful love poems to Rae, the city, the bars, the world rocking at all hours with their footsteps! Rae's drawings are incredible, love, love, love! There is nothing in here not to LOVE! Damn gorgeous! Some quotes:
"I think about my life. Because that's what you should always do when you are confronted with small pools of blood."
"People miss what they miss.
And they do it on loop their whole lives."
"To be alone is just to be temporarily in between modes of terror or joy, because there is no one to give you a scientific method for your heart. Have some jasmine rice. Suck a lime. There's pizza all over the world."
I cry with a lit face for Smith & Buleri! I LOVE THEM! xoxo
"I think about my life. Because that's what you should always do when you are confronted with small pools of blood."
"People miss what they miss.
And they do it on loop their whole lives."
"To be alone is just to be temporarily in between modes of terror or joy, because there is no one to give you a scientific method for your heart. Have some jasmine rice. Suck a lime. There's pizza all over the world."
I cry with a lit face for Smith & Buleri! I LOVE THEM! xoxo
April 23, 2017
So much great about this book: the ambling, prescient words, the off-beat humor, the pathos, and those incredible drawings by Rae Buleri. Smith is a word-slayer, you can never get too comfortable. Plus, he makes those of us ex-pats of NYC hunger for the street life.
April 13, 2017
this book kicked the shit out of me.
Bud Smith has written something great here.
there's so much sweet stuff in here.
i don't know, i think this is my favourite line, "When she passes us we take a long look at her bare ass and form mental snapshots so that later we can describe it vividly to our friends, whenever they materialize out from under the work week."
the drawings from Rae Buleri are amazing and add a lot to the book.
i felt happy while reading this book.
Bud Smith has written something great here.
there's so much sweet stuff in here.
i don't know, i think this is my favourite line, "When she passes us we take a long look at her bare ass and form mental snapshots so that later we can describe it vividly to our friends, whenever they materialize out from under the work week."
the drawings from Rae Buleri are amazing and add a lot to the book.
i felt happy while reading this book.
May 2, 2017
Bud Smith is a rarity: an actual honest-to-God working-class poet, one who writes about drinking beer and playing the jukebox in his favorite bar and the odd and unlikely characters he encounters in his somewhat down-at-heels NYC neighborhood.n His verse has a loose-limbed, colloquial energy that occasionally bursts into lyricism: "every little thing, twitching or locked up / is free in its restless sleep." The poems are accompanied nicely by quick-wristed, faintly Thurberesque drawings by Rae Buleri.
June 17, 2017
Read this book while I was drunk and going through a breakup. It's a good book to read drunk/with a broken heart. Bud tells you about his life. Jukeboxes and dogs and his cool wife (who draws the cool drawings). Bud is the happy prophet of the stupid world. He's reading poetry on the subway. He's frustrated by his t-shirt. He's Walt Whitman only married and working on an oil refinery and there are no poems about Abraham Lincoln. Basically this is the best book I've ever read.
December 7, 2017
I absolutely love this book and I cannot say enough about it. Each piece was a reminder of how happy I am that Bud and Rae are out there in the world existing and drinking and laughing at crazy random simple beautiful mundane lovely and mad shit the world throws their way. A book that makes you happy, that's worth a fistful of stars right there.
June 7, 2017
One hell of a charming little love letter.
July 14, 2017
Some good good writing and art, here. I finished it pretty quickly and threw these stars up, but since then I've probably re-read through it a whole other time, and certain individual pieces a lot more. The book sticks with you that way. I'll be checking out more Bud Smith for sure.
April 19, 2017
This was a fantastic book. An amazing collection of poems and drawings. I strongly recommend it.
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