"Readers may be voyeurs, but the subtler gifts are not for the fast glancers.  Take a good slow second look at Geoff Bouvier’s Living Room."  So begins Heather McHugh’s introduction to this award-winning volume.  Inside, boxes of typeface materialize from white space — literal boxes with proportions and corners where visitors might recline comfortably, or discover they’re trapped.  Each piece 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.  In style and substance, Living Room enacts the urgency one feels to stretch out against cramped quarters of any dimensions.  Acoustic, evocative, Bouvier’s multi-layered writing unsettles perimeters: the margins of the page, and the limits of cognition.