Joseph Rubano’s This Crazy Love Life is as much a journal as it is a book of poems: each poem, a cherished moment and, together, the diary of a passionate journey aiming to embrace every gift and crucible that life anoints us with. These poems are about relationship and the many forms that love takes. It is about the poetry of being a friend, a lover, a husband, father, grandfather, son and brother. Rubano reminds us that our simple and ordinary life is rich in relationships. He invites and inspires us to notice the little moments like his grandson riding a stick pony or calling him to dinner, the way children play and cry, the preciousness of taking a walk with an aging father or getting or not getting a letter from a friend. Here you will find poems about watching a friend skin a deer, accompanying a friend dealing with cancer, the beauty and complexity of being married a long time, being created friend by friend. “Come!” his words invite us wordlessly, “Come and taste what I have found!”