Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton Some of the voices fear

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Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Matthew Welton Some of the voices fearTessa 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