Flame and Shadow

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Teasdale's 1920 collection — her most mature work — deepens the lyric of loss and longing into something more contemplative and philosophically resigned. The poems show a poet coming to terms with disappointment and transience with great formal grace. 'There Will Come Soft Rains,' imagining nature's indifference to human extinction, is one of her most famous poems and gave Ray Bradbury a story title. As group reading, the short poems of this volume reward slow, attentive performance.