The Poem Factory

I know what you're thinking: another book of love poems!  They were my thoughts too; for so many years I refused to compile a book of love poems for fear of rejection.  The public has had it up to here with poets who have this driving need to advertise their love to the world at large. So what made me change my mind?

In 1998 I wrote a book of love poems called Promising the Moon, which sold out that same year.  I enjoyed writing that collection and then promoting it via newspaper stories, cable TV interviews, and countless poetry readings where I was either the featured poet or the poet who read in the open reading at the end.  People enjoyed hearing the few sample poems I read and lined up to order a copy.

This year I decided to try my luck again with A Dusting of Star Fall: Love Poems.  [published by Cyber-Wit Publications in India; $15.00 plus handling and shipping]

What makes this book my favorite of all the nine books I've written is the delightful fact that all of the over 100 poems in this collection were written for, to, and about my loving wife Sharon.  For ten years I had been writing her love poems on various occasions like birthdays, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Easter, and our October 26 Anniversary.  Finally I asked her one day if she would not mind if I took the best of those hundreds of poems and include them in a book.  She said she'd be honored if I did.

Folks who have ordered a copy of A Dusting of Star Fall... tell me it's the first book of love poems they enjoy reading over and over again.  Does that make me happy?  You bet it does!

If you'd like to order a copy of your own, send a check for $15.00 plus $3.00 for handling and shipping, made out to Sal Buttaci, and addressed to

Sal Buttaci

709 Straley Avenue, Apt. 4

Princeton, WV 24740

Yes, it's another book of love poems, but I think it's one you'll love.