{"product_id":"the-blue-dress-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","brand":"White Pine Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635439665426,"sku":"9781893996618","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97d36089-9206-4780-a69f-cd0d6084c22c.jpg?v=1759235984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-blue-dress-9781893996618","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}