Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems - Paperback

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Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems - Paperback

Name: Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems - Paperback
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SKU: 9780374609160
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by Carl Phillips

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Book Overview

An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.

Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's based on human memory. If the poet's last few books have concerned themselves with power, this one focuses on vulnerability: the usefulness of embracing it and of releasing ourselves from the need to understand our past. If we remember a thing, did it happen? If we believe it didn't, does that make our belief true?

In Scattered Snows, to the North, Phillips looks though the window of the past in order to understand the essential sameness of the human condition--"Tears / were tears," mistakes were made and regretted or not regretted, and it mattered until it didn't, the way people live until they don't. And there was also joy. And beauty. "Yet the world's still / so beautiful . . . Sometimes // it is . . ." And it was enough. And it still can be.

ISBN	9780374609160
Author	Carl Phillips
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	August 2025
Language	ENG- English
Pages	80
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print