{"product_id":"flame-and-shadow-paperback","title":"Flame and Shadow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Teasdale\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMint Editions\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, \/ That my songs do not show me at all?\" Content to depict birdsong and \"the silver light after a storm,\" Teasdale's poems elide the self in order to celebrate the creative powers of poem and world. \u003ci\u003eFlame and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767298097440,"sku":"9781513298641","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eefbea518f35f0bf3f0e679d3fc62717.webp?v=1780308571","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/flame-and-shadow-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}