{"title":"BOOK OF THE MONTH","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-hermit-by-lucy-ives","title":"The Hermit by Lucy Ives","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor international orders, please visit our distributor, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/AdvancedSearch\/DefaultWfilter.aspx?SearchTerm=PubName\u0026amp;PublisherName=The%20Song%20Cave\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hermit\u003c\/i\u003e is a catalog of thoughts concerning art and experience. Layering fragments of dreams, lists, games, conversations, poems, and notebooks, Lucy Ives offers an intimate look into one writer’s practice—\"The worst is my imagination: lushly underscoring everything.“\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Imagine if all you had was phenomenology, and then that faded, making every legibility left behind look like scare quotes around the word \"thought.” Lucy Ives is smart in that heart-breaking way that can make a spare, suspicious, elegant work of anti-poetry out of the silent treatment between ideas and those who have them. ‘You cannot win,’ says \u003ci\u003eThe Hermit\u003c\/i\u003e, in that cognitive territory unoccupied by ease.“ \u003cb\u003eAnne Boyer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stray thoughts are the protagonists of \u003ci\u003eThe Hermit\u003c\/i\u003e—they might be the aftereffects of intense focus, yet come across as decidedly eccentric in their resistance to systems (i.e. genre) that might dull their prismatic luminescence. Here they deliver proof of parataxis’s poiesis. Ives’s exquisite take on ellipsis as realism is a dream, as both vision and something that fully satisfies a wish.” \u003cb\u003eMónica de la Torre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucy Ives is the author five books of poetry and prose, including an essay and poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eOrange Roses\u003c\/i\u003e (Ahsahta, 2013), and \u003ci\u003eA Novella, Nineties\u003c\/i\u003e (Little A, 2015). Her first full-length novel,\u003ci\u003eImpossible Views of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by Penguin Press in 2017. Editor of \u003ci\u003eTriple Canopy\u003c\/i\u003e, Ives lives in New York City and teaches at the Pratt Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-0-9967786-3-3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/robmclennan.blogspot.ca\/2016\/07\/lucy-ives-hermit.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRob Mclennan’s blog\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/entropymag.org\/ultimate-summer-reading-list-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEntropy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/on-the-many-ways-and-reasonsto-mix-poetry-and-prose\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLITHUB\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/angelcityreview.com\/the-hermit\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/enclave.entropymag.org\/required-reading-the-hermit-the-wine-dark-sea-the-good-dark-proxies\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEnclave\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldsmagazine.com\/blog\/autumn-poetry-roundup-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003efields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/makemag.com\/review-the-hermit-by-lucy-ives\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMAKE Literary Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/article\/10031\/the-hermit\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOMB\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/north-america\/usa\/articles\/lucy-ives-the-hermit-new-book-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Culture Trip\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openpoetrybooks.com\/the-hermit-by-lucy-ives\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOpen Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Song Cave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31473192131,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1614\/5743\/products\/The_Hermit.jpg?v=1479773570"}],"url":"https:\/\/the-song-cave.com\/collections\/book-of-the-month.oembed","provider":"The Song Cave","version":"1.0","type":"link"}