FUCKO — SECOND EDITION (paperback)
Lucas Restivo's poetry collection, “FUCKO.” 64 pages. First ed. Sept. 2022; second ed. Dec. 2023.
"A plunge into the neurotic brain if the neurotic brain had its birthday party at an Italian-American Chuck E. Cheese. It’s fun, it’s masculine, it’s jabbing, and complex boy thoughts at their best. Lucas Restivo is 'the happy lamp of my little life.'"
— Ari Lisner, author of “One Shtick Pony”
"Graced by the Gift of Gab, ‘FUCKO’ breaks all the rules of thirty, flirty, thriving. It is all-American because it hates weddings and work, likes shitting and love stories. These poems speak to you across suffering—they access a universal dichotomy of feeling both unfuckable and god-like. ‘FUCKO’ will air the dirty laundry of loneliness, Restivo’s, yours, mine, sharing an earnesty that doesn’t care about being sexy. Eligible and waiting for you, this collection is a bachelor with a deli meat rose."
— Carson Jordan, author of “GOOD FOR HER” and “NO MORE BUT I MUST”
"Stupid is smart, dog is dead, suburban degenerate is chic, the meaning of life is working at a deli and trying to reconcile meaning in poetic phone notes during your smoke break. ‘FUCKO’ is Kevin Smith as a siren crooning 'who the fuck cares but actually I care, I really really do' and it’s sexy."
— Riley Mac