There Must Be a Reason People Come Here - Softcover

Foley, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939568447 ISBN 13: 9781939568441

Verlag: Black Ocean, 2022

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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.

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Brian Foley is the author of The Constitution, also published by Black Ocean, as well as several chapbooks. He currently teaches Ethics at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.

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YELLOW BRICK ROAD

I hear the people

who walked here.

I hear it and then you 

hear it too.

On the road,

the yellow leaves

coming to an end

never drop, stretching

out their change

with something bright

to mark their bodies 

from the black grass. 

Here is what we know.

This is the music

they would listen to.

They were addicts.

Here is what we know.

We’re not crazy.

Our instruments

are impaired.

Far from civilization,

we’re not where

we’re supposed to be.

So here we are.

And this meeting

is officially 

about the possibility

of turning back.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black Ocean
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1939568447
• ISBN 13: 9781939568441
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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