Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton Interwoven into the narrative are

Interwoven into the narrative are the puzzle pieces of a fateful decision to undertake a skydive

celebration and mourning

with remarkable music and clarity

’ – John McAuliffe

Some of the voices fear involvement

Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton Interwoven into the narrative areTessa Berrings Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things. Within its folds, poems call to, sometimes quarrel with, each other as images (a warm spell, an outdoor cow) slip from one poem to another. Some of these poems offer miraculously vivid excavations of such everyday objects as the humble scatter cushion, while others ache with the longing to touch, really touch, everything everything