The Blue Dress by Alison Townsend
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2003
- Publisher: White Pine Press
- Format: Paperback, 144pp
- Series: Marie Alexander Poetry Series
- ISBN-13: 9781893996618
- ISBN: 1893996611
- Edition Description: 1ST
Synopsis
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.
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This is an awesome collectionby Jordan_Hal
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May 08, 2009: This is an awesome collection to have in one's own library.
Everyone should own works by Alison Townsend, along with Ohio Blue Tips by Jeanne E. Clark and The Photos In The Closet by Daniel E. Lopez.I Also Recommend: Persephone in America, The Photos In The Closet, Ohio Blue Tips, Ohio Blue Tips.
Alison is my hero.by Anonymous
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April 01, 2003: She honestly is. She's my teacher, literally and theoretically. Wonderful poet, beautiful person, eloquent beyond belief. Pour your time into her collection of poems, you owe it to yourself and mankind.
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