Eleanor Ashgrove
LOW
LIGHT
Poems & Notes
Poems & Notes · 2024
Low Light
Sixty short poems for the blue hour — dusk, dawn, and everything half-lit. Written over five winters and arranged to be read one at a time, lamp on, phone off.
About This Book
These poems began as margin notes in the novel drafts — images too bright to throw away, too brief to belong. A heron at first light. A kitchen window in November. The particular blue of a town just before the streetlamps decide.
Gathered across five winters and set beside short prose notes on where each one came from, Low Light is the smallest book Eleanor Ashgrove has made, and — readers keep telling her — the one that stays closest, in coat pockets and on nightstands.
Inside
- I. Dusk Poems (twenty)
- II. Night Notes (fifteen)
- III. Dawn Poems (twenty-five)
- IV. On Keeping a Light On — an afterword
A Poem
“November window, kettle on —
the day gives up its light so soon
you'd think it owed the dark money.
Sit down. The tea knows the way back.”
— “Kettle,” from Low Light
Details
- Genre
- Poetry / notes
- Published
- 2024 · Ashgrove Letters
- Pages
- 148
- Formats
- Hardcover, ebook, audiobook
What Readers Say
“I read one poem each night and the days got longer. That is not a metaphor; that is a review.”
— Reader letter
“Proof that small books can hold whole seasons.”
— Meridian Books Weekly