Poetry. LIVING ROOM is the winner of the eighth annual American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, as chosen by Heather McHugh. Each piece within Geoff Bouvier's first collection brims with industry and restless attention, and the dramas they contain are manifold. In style and substance, LIVING ROOM enacts the urgency one feels to stretch out against cramped quarters of any dimensions. "The narrative voice in LIVING ROOM 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.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Geoff Bouvier's first book, LIVING ROOM, was selected by Heather McHugh as the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize winner and was published by Copper Canyon Press. In 2009, he served as the poet-in-residence at the University of California-Berkeley. For five years, he wrote long-form magazine journalism with The San Diego Reader, publishing over fifty cover stories in that time. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, jubilat, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, and VOLT. GLASS HARMONICA was published by Quale Press in 2011.