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— Announcing —
Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks
"The book dances: tapestry words delight energetics, reminiscence pics do cosmic flashback, an importation of the now and into a future of offworlds here on earth"--Baba L'Salaam, Elder and founder, Park Vibe Baltimore
Hachure Press is delighted to present Gerald Majer’s Vortex, Baba: Park Vibe Notebooks. The book is a product of ten years’ fieldwork with the Baltimore Druid Hill Park Vibe collective, a longstanding Black drum circle that developed during the Black Arts radical 60s and that continues today. In keeping with Hachure Press coordinates of change, motion, and the yet-to-be, Vortex, Baba embraces an intersectional aesthetic of philosophy, anthropology, Black studies, and urban history. At the same time, the book sings its worlds through immersive literary journalism and thinks long about feeling, race, and sociality.
Chapters of the book have appeared in peer-reviewed national journals such as Callaloo, Brilliant Corners, and Georgia Review.
“Ta Abu,” The Georgia Review
https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/
“App with Gerald”; “As Shawl, Armor of flight’; “Playlist with Abdul,” Brilliant Corners
https://www.lycoming.edu/brilliant-corners/
“Vortex, Baba,” Calaloo
https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/
Nearby inspirations for Vortex, Baba are Fred Moten, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Rasheedah Philips, Will Alexander, Ashon Crawley. and other writers and artists on the far edges of contemporary thought.
The author has given us a VORTEX, BABA PLAYLIST for readers’ enjoyment. The range is from Sun Ra to Saul Williams, Moor Mother, and Konjur Collective , with special emphasis on the Park Vibe creators of new generations.
