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Sam Ross

Sam Ross is the author of Company, selected by Carl Phillips for the 2017 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and forthcoming in 2019.

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Poetry
In a shop near a church
            in the center of the city

I blinded myself.

            I held a penlight
to my left eye.
Sam Ross

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