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.
- ISBN10 1939568447
- ISBN13 9781939568441
- Publish Date 25 August 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Black Ocean
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English