Maintenance

William Trowbridge is one of America’s best and wittiest poets: funny, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding. Trowbridge tells it like it was, and like it is: occasionally grim, but replete with humor.
~ Charles Harper Webb

Sharp, funny, and unflinching, William Trowbridge writes with clear-eyed wit and deep compassion. A wise, wry, and humane collection, Trowbridge remains one of America’s most engaging and generous poetic voices.
~Elizabeth Powell

Maintenance, grapples with the Sisyphean tasks of upkeep and repair against the inevitable vicissitudes of entropy, decay, complacency, and despair. With trademark wit, Trowbridge peels back the histories we collectively seem doomed to repeat—familial, national, global... confirming the enduring power of art in the midst of absurdity.
~ Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh