{"product_id":"there-must-be-a-reason-people-come-here","title":"There Must Be a Reason People  Come Here","description":"\u003cb\u003eA philosophical-minded and syntactically experimental book of poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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?” \u003ci\u003eThere Must Be A Reason People Come Here\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Ocean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49761868743000,"sku":"9781939568441","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781939568441.jpg?v=1770711342","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/there-must-be-a-reason-people-come-here","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}