Description
| Product ID: | 9781939568441 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | There Must Be a Reason People Come Here |
| Authors: | Author: Brian Foley |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Black Ocean |
| Publisher Name: | Black Ocean |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-25 |
