The Blue Dress (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)
In 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.
"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
Alison Townsend 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.
- Author
- Alison Townsend
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781893996618
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2003
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