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Scattered Snows, to the North

The poems of Carl Phillips’ Scattered Snows, to the North echo one another, alighting on some philosophical truth and then returning, humbled, to the material world.

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Review of ‘Scattered Snows, to the North’

In his 17th book of poetry, Scattered Snows, to the North, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips gazes both inward and outward. His work carries a signature heft, a musicality and syntax that seems to rewrite itself with each read. Phillips tangles his sentences like few other poets working today, and often, rather than untangling them,…

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