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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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carl PhillipsPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.259kg ISBN: 9780374612412ISBN 10: 0374612412 Pages: 80 Publication Date: 06 August 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""These poems strike poignant and enduring notes, suffused in 'the split fruit of late fall, ' which 'wears best when worn quietly.' This is another poised addition to Phillips's dazzling body of work."" --Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""Autumn and winter; aging and death; erotic desire, and our regret if it fades ... [Phillips] writes about those simplest, oldest things with a syntax so unpredictable, so elaborate, that they can seem almost new."" -- Stephanie Burt, The New York Times Book Review" """These poems strike poignant and enduring notes, suffused in 'the split fruit of late fall, ' which 'wears best when worn quietly.' This is another poised addition to Phillips's dazzling body of work."" --Publishers Weekly (starred review)" Author InformationCarl 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |