Scattered Snows, to the North
Book description
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…
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Why read it?
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Scattered Snows, to the North, the latest collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Carl Phillips, feels like a return to his work in Tether, Rock Harbor, and Silverchest. The sensuous touch, which made fewer appearances in recent collections, is back. Erotic memory is as beguiling and unreliable as all memory. “Vikings” is emblematic of the wrestling Phillips is doing with the concept of the past and aging. Questioning memory’s unreliability to where one questions the present, because as we experience it, now immediately slips into memory.