The Joy Menu
Joey RubinFatherhood & Creativity
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Now Published—'Slow Business'
Hi friends,
Today I hit “publish” on Slow Business, the collection of poems written during my father’s illness.
You can find and purchase a copy here.
I hope you grab one.
Or 12.
(Pro tip: they’re great stocking stuffers – or, give...
86–Slow business, indeed.
By next week, I’ll have a collection of poetry available for sale.
It’s my own product, my own “thing,” created to share my ordered words with you and the world.
I’m proud of it. I have a proof copy in my hands right now. It feels comple...
85–The sting is part of it now.
Hi friend,
Since I started publishing poems here in May (with issue 76 “A last Thanksgiving at home”), I’ve been working my way through a pile of pieces written during the 17 months my father was sick – with the goal of releasing them as a...
84–This heartbreaking unknowability.
We are, all of us, ultimately uknowable to each other. Perhaps this makes the larceny of death an even crueler theft – especially with those we spend our lives trying to understand. Lovers. Close friends. Parents.
In their passing, we not...
83–Like a tiger in the bush.
Among all the softer emotions we feel walking a person through their last weeks, there are also many sharp feelings, ugly feelings, misshapen feelings that visit us—with anger being a regular presence.
And no surprise: for what is fair abo...
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Joey Rubin is a writer using Substack in dogged pursuit of understanding through attention paid to one particular life.
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