{"product_id":"maintenance-paperback-2","title":"Maintenance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Trowbridge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I've written before that William Trowbridge is one of America's best and wittiest poets: funny, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e and rueful understanding. Having just read his new collection, \u003cem\u003eMaintenance, \u003c\/em\u003e I'm pleased to say that I was right. Whether he tackles being a boy or a teenager, being the new guy in a tin can factory, or a college teacher on the low end of the adjunct scale, Trowbridge tells it like it was, and like it is: occasionally grim, but replete with humor and such good writing that, if it wouldn't scare my wife, I'd stand up from my desk and cheer.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Charles Harper Webb, author of \u003cem\u003eSidebend World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Maintenance \u003c\/em\u003eis 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!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Elizabeth Powell, author of \u003cem\u003eAtomizer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"William Trowbridge's newest collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eMaintenance, \u003c\/em\u003e grapples with the Sisyphean tasks of upkeep and repair against the inevitable \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e vicissitudes of entropy, decay, complacency, and despair. \u003cem\u003eMaintenance \u003c\/em\u003econsiders what it means to be entangled within the violent machineries \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e labor, and constructions of American masculinity. Trowbridge raises a glass to both the folly and horror of the end times in elegiac and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e gracefully rendered lines-ruefully hilarious, ekphrastic and elegant-confirming the enduring power of art in the midst of absurdity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, Author of \u003cem\u003eTsunami vs. the Fukushima 50\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354217300217,"sku":"9798899750168","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/THliBMOSeK9798899750168.webp?v=1769833154","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/maintenance-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}