{"product_id":"the-blue-dress-alison-townsend-9781893996618","title":"The Blue Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this quiet, clear-eyed collection, Townsend meditates on loss--childhood bereavement, depression, divorce--to arrive at the realization that it is through loss that we come to possess some of life's most profound gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The project of Alison Townsend's poetry is to chart a course through the deepest of losses--to attempt some safe passage through a lifetime's erasures. Intimate, warm and observant, this book involves us in the inscription of a life.\"--Mark Doty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Townsend\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and spent her childhood in North Salem, New York. She received a B.A. at Marlboro College in Vermont, an M.A. at Claremont Graduate School in California, and an M.F.A. at Vermont College in Mont-pelier. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Townsend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1893996611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781893996618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Pine Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.06w x 0.45d","brand":"Alison Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984454123775,"sku":"9781893996618","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6d05873-2b73-473e-87e9-6a4a12b2095c.jpg?v=1683272404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-blue-dress-alison-townsend-9781893996618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}