{"product_id":"scattered-snows-to-the-north","title":"Scattered Snows, to the North","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Carl Phillips\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2024)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarl Phillips’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eScattered Snows, to the North\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eScattered Snows, to the North\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYet the world’s still\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eso beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSometimes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \/\/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eit is\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e . . .” And it was enough. And it still can be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44028869771363,"sku":"9780374609160","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/scatter.jpg?v=1772234510","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/scattered-snows-to-the-north","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}