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Maintenance
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-Charles Harper Webb, author of Sidebend World
"Maintenance is a sharp, funny, and unflinching look at American life past and present. William Trowbridge writes with clear-eyed wit and deep compassion, turning our everyday messes and momentary wins into acrobatic, virtuosic art. These accomplished poems remind us that maintenance-of language, of history, of ourselves-is both necessary and absurd. A wise, wry, and humane collection, Trowbridge remains one of America's most engaging and generous poetic voices. A joy to read!"
-Elizabeth Powell, author of Atomizer
"William Trowbridge's newest collection of poems, Maintenance, grapples with the Sisyphean tasks of upkeep and repair against the inevitable vicissitudes of entropy, decay, complacency, and despair. Maintenance considers what it means to be entangled within the violent machineries of war, industry, capital and stuck, Groundhog Day-esque, in cyclical patterns that reveal the foibles and failings of human nature. With his trademark piercing wit and searing intelligence, Trowbridge peels back the histories we collectively seem doomed to repeat-familial, national, global. These poems navigate childhood memory, labor, and constructions of American masculinity. Trowbridge raises a glass to both the folly and horror of the end times in elegiac and gracefully rendered lines-ruefully hilarious, ekphrastic and elegant-confirming the enduring power of art in the midst of absurdity."
-Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, Author of Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
116
Release Date:
2025-08-18
Publication Date:
2025-08-18
Publisher:
Spartan Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN13:
9798899750168
Weight:
181 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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