Company

winner of the 2020 thom gunn award for gay poetry

Winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry

Available from Four Way Books, Amazon, IndieBound, Barnes and Noble, Books Are Magic, McNally Jackson, and local bookstores

“Company is sensual, political, ghostly, and frank; what a close friend or beguiling stranger might whisper in your ear in the corner of a crowded party to make you say, ‘Tell me more.’”

— Four Way Books

“Ross pitches nothing less than a stubborn belief in tenderness and in the patience both to look everywhere for it and to trustingly wait for it (“I would learn rare // and love and want and wait. / I had to start at the beginning.”) This is a debut both tough and tender, the poems of a man who’s been made to look away from the world plenty, and has found a way to look steadily back.”

— Carl Phillips

“Sam Ross is an important poet because he writes of important matters: the life and death of kindness, survival under attack, the exquisite price of humanness."

— Washington Independent Review of Books

“Company displays a clear care for precision and a delicate approach to sentiment. . . . Ross captures how delicate and dangerous connection can be--especially sexual connections and the truths they reveal—yet Company offers testimony for not turning one's back on those intimate ties that bind."

— Lambda Literary

“[Ross's] poems play with color as a Polaroid's flash plays on a smile, with neon-bright illumination. . . . In these poems, the sun is a tricksome, unpredictable lighting crew; the colors feel brighter, and more potent.”

— Rain Taxi

“[Ross's] poems are deceptively quiet against our over-saturated moment, bursting with their own possibility.”

— Hobart

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