{"product_id":"living-room-paperback-2","title":"Living Room - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeoff Bouvier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHeather McHugh\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The narrating voice in \u003ci\u003eLiving Room\u003c\/i\u003e is insistent but quiet, though it sometimes achieves loudness without any apparent effort. At other times it seems to continue in the -reader's mind even after stopping for the day. It is an important new presence, faintly disturbing and endlessly attractive.\"--John Ashbery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReaders may be voyeurs, but the subtler gifts are not for the fast glancers. Take a good slow second look at Geoff Bouvier's \u003c\/i\u003eLiving Room \u003ci\u003e. . . bravura performances, both accessible and elegant, both immediate and subtle, both hilarious and serious. . . . With virtuoso reversals, switches of vantage, changes of scale, inside-outings, they accomplish metaphysical, not only physical, effects.\u003c\/i\u003e--from the introduction by Heather McHugh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of Geoff Bouvier's prose poems brims with industry and restless attention, and the dramas they contain are manifold. Here a solitary mind and there a whole social sphere are cross-sectioned for observation at moments rife with emotional collisions--awesome tediums, mad reliefs. In style and substance, \u003ci\u003eLiving Room\u003c\/i\u003e enacts the urgency one feels to stretch out against cramped quarters. Introduced by Heather McHugh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSavings Plan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo save things, collect them in an unremarkable place--behind a row of history books, in the corner of the garage--where you wouldn't usually look. Then forget about these things completely.\u003cbr\u003e When you remember what you're saving--a photograph of an ex, the fattening candy bars--but forget where you're saving it, you may worry, even curse yourself. But remember how this is your plan, and how the plan is succeeding.\u003cbr\u003e The savings are protected, hidden away, even if you can't find them until many days after a rainy day.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoff Bouvier\u003c\/b\u003e holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and from Bard College. He lives in San Diego, where he waits tables at Tapenade Restaurant and publishes journalistic prose with the \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoff Bouvier holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. His chapbbok, Everybody Had a Hat, won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Contest for 2000. He lives in San Diego, where he waits tables at Tapenade Restaurant, and publishes journalistic prose with The San Diego Reader. Heather McHugh is the author of six books of poetry, and her Hinge \u0026amp; Sign: Poems 1968-1993 was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. She teaches as a core faculty member in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and as Milliman Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 9.02 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772827468064,"sku":"9780971898189","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/64b6b297d227c3026b69972707132009.webp?v=1780415169","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/living-room-paperback-2","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}