“Live For A Living is a ripcord. ‘If you’ve never been rocked back by the presence of purpose’ it is too soon for you. Tender, jarring and deeply human, this book is pulsing with the same electricity and honesty found in Buddy’s live performances. Through 140 pages of journal entries and poems (including Human the Death Dance) I was left goose bumped to the core, a suckerfish racing towards the deep end. Read this book. You will not find another writer more disarming in his humility, more brave in his hopes, or more brilliant in his lack of etiquette. From a Poetry Slam at San Quentin State Prison to visions of tacos at a Vipassana mediation retreat, Live for a Living is rich with the kind of healing our crazy world needs, and I am much much better for having been here.” --Andrea Gibson; International Poet-Activist (and one of Buddy’s performance poetry heroes)

Track Listing: Healing Hermann Hesse Cannonball Man (remake) I Got Gone (featuring Sage Francis) Convenience Stores Fran Varian's Grandmother The Pressure of Pitching Doves My Town Voices Pretend Intro Pretend My Point Forever Endlessly (remake) The Information Man now (remake) Flockprinter A Little Ditty Called Happiness (remake) Additional Tracks Alone and a Little Stunned Guitar Repair Woman $14.00

"84 pages, perfect bound. This book contains almost all of Buddy's most popular performance pieces [through 2004] with intros on the creative process, biographical material that helps us understand what instigated some of the poems and how his thought process has evolved over time. It is always full of Buddy's warm sense of humor, his biting criticism and his big, big heart. As much as those who know Buddy love him, that doesn't stop him from making us really mad in one poem, making us laugh really hard in a dozen others, and it doesn't stop us from alternately laughing and crying in a few more. To read Buddy's book is to sit with him in the front car of the roller coaster. And you'll hear him taunt you for holding onto the bar when he throws his hands in the air."
- Steve Marsh, The Wordsmith Press, Executive Director of Poetry Slam International