{"product_id":"scattered-snows-to-the-north-poems-paperback","title":"Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarl Phillips's \u003ci\u003eScattered Snows, to the North\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Scattered Snows, to the North\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \"\u003ci\u003eYet the world's still\u003c\/i\u003e \/ \u003ci\u003eso beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eSometimes\u003c\/i\u003e \/\/ \u003ci\u003eit is\u003c\/i\u003e . . .\" And it was enough. And it still can be.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThen the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8.06 x 5.47 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731093319987,"sku":"9780374609160","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/K0WdP5seVk9780374609160.webp?v=1763848673","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/scattered-snows-to-the-north-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}