Company (Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry)

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

"What I want is you to see

what is backlit, behind me.

Not the silhouette--

but the negative space

I make blocking light."

Ross's book 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."