{"product_id":"flame-and-shadow-9781513298641","title":"Flame and Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlame and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e (1920) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's fifth collection, published two years after she won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, death, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, \u003ci\u003eFlame and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e revels in the mystery of existence itself. \"What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, \/ That my songs do not show me at all?\" Content to depict the rhythms of nature, the songs of birds, and \"the silver light after a storm,\" Teasdale's poetry dissolves the poet's ego in order to access a deeper well of creative energy: \"For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, \/ It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.\" In \"There Will Come Soft Rains,\" a poem born from a decade of war and widespread disease, Teasdale imagines a posthuman world where beauty and harmony continue despite our disappearance: \"Robins will wear their feathery fire \/ Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war...\" For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs, the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's \u003ci\u003eFlame and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mint Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781513298641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Sara Teasdale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40550368903349,"sku":"9781513298641","price":7.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8a44ab8a-55db-4524-bc4d-82d880ba5346.jpg?v=1626789990","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/flame-and-shadow-9781513298641","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}