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A philosophical-minded and syntactically experimental book of poetry. The philosopher Catherine Malabou once asked: “What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not purely and simply coincide with the spirit of capitalism?” There Must Be A Reason People Come Here by Brian Foley is a collection of poems that attempts to answer this question by broadcasting the indirect effects of the lived condition of a subject squeezed under the structures of late capitalism. Lines like, “Hope is a chemical, not a dream ignited in the eye / that can be heard sober.” And “There is no sun here, / just habits of light” work through the contradictions of what it means to be negatively capable. It is a collection of poems that refuses to conform to the norms of what poetry is and how it must say things. A philosophical-minded and syntactically experimental book of poetry.


The philosopher Catherine Malabou once asked: “What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not purely and simply coincide with the spirit of capitalism?” There Must Be A Reason People Come Here by Brian Foley is a collection of poems that attempts to answer this question by broadcasting the indirect effects of the lived condition of a subject squeezed under the structures of late capitalism. 


Lines like, “Hope is a chemical, not a dream ignited in the eye / that can be heard sober.” And “There is no sun here, / just habits of light” work through the contradictions of what it means to be negatively capable. It is a collection of poems that refuses to conform to the norms of what poetry is and how it must say things.




  • | Author: Brian Foley
  • | Publisher: Black Ocean
  • | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2022
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  • | Binding: Paperback / softback
  • | ISBN-13: 9781939568441
  • | ISBN-10: 1939568447
Author:
Brian Foley
Publisher:
Black Ocean
Publication Date:
Aug 25, 2022
Binding:
Paperback / softback
ISBN-13:
9781939568441
ISBN10:
1939568447