Out of Nothing

Sired under the spell that remains colonialism QR Hand's Out of Nothing focuses upon daily social spasm warped at its base according to tenets that remains a dissonant social screed. His living solidarity with the masses which was not unlike the instinctive tenor that issued from his rhythmical power of a drum symbolized by his medicinal support of Bob Kaufman. His language registers power not unlike unbrokered kindling.

-Will Alexander, author of Refracted Africa: Ballet of The Forgotten & Divine Blue Light

Originally published in the 1968 classic, Black Fire, an anthology of African American writing, edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, which has recently been reproduced by Black Classics Press. Q. R. Hand, Jr. moved to the SF Bay Area from NYC about thirty years ago. An original member of the Wordwind Chorus, a Bay Area quartet that has performed poetry with jazz for over twenty years. He was 2012 Recipient of the Pen Oakland Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.