Sam Ross '13 Has Debut Collection Coming in February

Sam Charles Ross '13 has his debut collection of poetry coming out this February, titled Company. Company was selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the Four Ways Books Levis Prize in Poetry.

Crossing urban, foreign, and coastal terrain, the poems of Company navigate misperception, memory, and threat while engaging with a sense of possibility.

“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's poems have appeared in Tin House, New Republic, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Guernica, and other journals. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Columbia University, where he earned his MFA.