There Must Be a Reason People Come Here

By Brian Foley

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939568447
• ISBN13: 9781939568441
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Black Ocean
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.3"