{"product_id":"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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Pine Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050877632752,"sku":"9781893996618","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781893996618_p0.jpg?v=1763610005","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781893996618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}