Maintenance

"I've written before that William Trowbridge is one of America's best and wittiest poets: funny, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight

and rueful understanding. Having just read his new collection, Maintenance, 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 s...