Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems by Carl Phillips

Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems

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Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems by Carl Phillips

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374609160
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Carl Phillips
Published Date:
2025-08-05
Language:
English
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About Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022). Born in Everett, Washington, he earned a BA from Harvard University and an MA from Boston University. He is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. His earlier collections include Cortège (Graywolf, 1995). His honors include the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress.

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