Calvin Walds

Flee Calvin Walds

Winner of the 2020 Split/Lip Press Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest Flee is on the move.
Flee is a mode of being and of making, one that moves from Detroit, to Paris, to Brooklyn, Hargeisa, and back, with a hybrid of warring energies- the lyrical, theoretical, political, and surreal-to innovate and interrogate both form and content in surpassing the actual. Flee seeks to find something else, maybe soft grass to lie on. With prose and photographs, Flee engages memories of travel in their physical, affective, and relational dimensions and reflects on Aaliyah, drones, Levinias, and Bushwick along the way. Flee is a chronicle and a poetics.