Tessa Rumsey

The Return Message

Poems

Winner of the 2004 Barnard Women Poets Prize, judged by Jorie Graham, this collection explores loss and regeneration.

“Encoded in the complex and lush weave of language that characterizes these poems is a narrative of despair, loss, obsession, and paradoxical blossoming.”—Ploughshares

“A beautiful and impressive work—joyful with wit and formal experiment, movingly urgent in its concerns.”—Jorie Graham, 2004 Barnard Women Poets Prize citation

Tessa Rumsey’s Assembling the Shepherd won the 1998 Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. She lives in San Francisco.

October 2006 / trade paper / ISBN 10: 0-393-32913-5 ISBN 13: 978-0-393-32913-1 / 104 pages / POETRY