{"product_id":"scattered-snows-to-the-north-poems-carl-phillips-paperback","title":"Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems -- Carl Phillips, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carl Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\/5\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.06\" H x 5.47\" L x 0.25\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780374609160\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51740855107883,"sku":"9780374609160","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780374609160.jpg?v=1774819290","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/scattered-snows-to-the-north-poems-carl-phillips-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}