The Hermit

"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." --Anne Boyer

The Hermit 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."
Lucy Ives (born 1980) is the author five books of poetry and prose, including an essay and poetry collection, Orange Roses (Ahsahta, 2013), and A Novella, Nineties (Little A, 2015). Her first full-length novel, Impossible Views of the World, was published by Penguin Press in 2017. Editor of Triple Canopy, Ives lives in New York City and teaches at the Pratt Institute.