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Poems and Ballads (1866)
Broke and bitter
easily snapped
reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in
Lines about politics
Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips Jane Hirshfield Poems and Ballads (1866)Carl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's recent books have been engaged with the theme of power, this one focuses on vulnerability: the value of embracing it and thus of releasing ourselves from the compulsion to understand our past. If we remember a thing, did it really happen? If we
