The Preface
For beginning the practice of keeping.
The Ivy Keep
Literary objects for reading, noticing, and keeping.
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The Ivy Keep makes objects for a practice of reading: to hold a book, notice what it offers, reflect on it, return to it, and keep what matters.
Now in the Keep
Selected objects
The Jotter
For notes made in passing.
The Curio Pouch
A small gathering of useful things.
The Hidden Archive
For what waits to be discovered.
The Rooms of the Keep
Every object finds its place within the Keep.
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Room I
The Reading Room
Objects and Volumes used directly in the reading ritual.
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Room II
The Keeping Room
Objects for recording, preserving, organizing, noticing, questioning, holding, and returning.
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Room III
The Miscellany Alcove
Useful, curious, retrieved, and gathered literary objects that do not keep to a single shelf.
A quiet practice of reading—keeping what is read through marking, writing, and return.
Correspondence
Occasional notes from The Ivy Keep about new objects, new Volumes, and other things taking root.