The blue dress : poems & prose poems / Alison Townsend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Townsend, Alison.

Series:

Marie Alexander poetry series ; no. 6.

The Marie Alexander poetry series ; v. 6

Language:

English

Physical Description:

141 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine, 2003.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1893996611

OCLC:

51527917