Join the book release for The Mandorla Letters, the first book released by award winning flautist and composer, Nicole Mitchell Gantt, through the Green Latern Press. Mitchell will be in conversation with critically acclaimed author, filmmaker, dancer, and independent scholar Ytasha L. Womack.

The Mandorla Letters is part memoir, part Black speculative novella. The Mandorla Letters: for the hopeful blurs boundaries between this world and an imagined future whose overlapping wisdoms make cooperation with our natural environment a central concern for collective thriving. Extending her ongoing musical project Mandorla Awakening, Nicole Mitchell Gantt explores inequity, the musical legacies of jazz, creative music, and intercultural collaboration to guide readers toward an alternative society that disrupts binaries, hierarchies, and western ideas of progress. Paying homage to artists, musicians, and writers who have inspired her, Mitchell Gantt opens channels for artistic proliferation that are integral to the collective survival of our planet.

Of this book, reviews are glowing…

“Nicole Mitchell Gantt has penned an Afrofuturist masterwork, unearthing her musical lens and process through a multivoiced narrative that invokes cosmic identity. A nonlinear weaving, she maps her imagination through the prism of critical thought, experience, and ancestral inspirations that brings her music to life. This is a must-read for those seeking to understand the star seeds through which Black Experimental Music and creativity at large is born.”

— Ytasha L. Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture

“The Mandorla Letters contains all the luminosity and human consciousness necessary for gaining critical insight for navigating the current cultural landscapes. This exquisite and imaginative work—part testimony, part collective memory—is essential for a new survival work-song. Part cultural analysis and criticism, part memoir of younger years, and part visionary radical self-reflection on the possible, Professor Gantt, as musician, composer, poet, and teacher, gives us a book that is truly revelatory.”

— Haki R. Madhubuti, author of Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? and Taught By Women: Poems as Resistance Language

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