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What is a short summary of Maintenance in the collection, Float?

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"Maintenance" is one of the list-based chapbooks in Float; it details a series of 26 points, which begin mundane — "Water the earth," "Polish the steel circles and squares" — and which escalate to consider some of the volume's most metaphysical questions, such as: "Who does all this thinking are there rules for it this boundary between work and its maintenance who draws it." As a result, "Maintenance" presents itself at once as a volume concerned with what it means to call something 'art' — it is, after all, a list posing as a poem — and as a volume concerned with 'boundaries': between one point and the next, one chapbook and the next, and even one art form and the next.

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