# Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems - Hardcover

by **Carl Phillips** (Author)

**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.

### Author Biography

**Carl Phillips** is the author of _Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020_, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

**Number of Pages:** 80

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 9.33 x 6.18 IN

**Publication Date:** August 06, 2024

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