Thresh & Hold
Marlanda Dekine
New York TimesMarlanda Dekine’s debut collection is a holy, radical unlearning and reclamation of self. What does it mean to be a Gullah-Geechee descendant from a rural place where a third of the nation’s founding wealth was harvested by trafficked West and Central Africans? Dekine’s poems travel across age and time, signaling that both the past and future exist in the present. Through erasure and persona, Dekine reimagines intergenerational traumas and calls institutions from the Works Progress Administration narratives to modern-day museums to task.
Beyond gospel music, fear, and the stories of generations past, Thresh & Hold offers magic, healing, and innovative pathways to manifest intimacy. Dekine remembers, remakes, and brings forth their many selves, traveling far in order to deeply connect to a spiritual home within and all around them, calling: “I am listening to Spirit. I am not dying today.”
Marlanda Dekine is the winner of the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, judged by Gabrielle Calvocoressi.
Duration - 51m.
Author - Marlanda Dekine.
Narrator - Marlanda Dekine.
Published Date - Sunday, 29 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2022 Marlanda Dekine ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
New York TimesMarlanda Dekine’s debut collection is a holy, radical unlearning and reclamation of self. What does it mean to be a Gullah-Geechee descendant from a rural place where a third of the nation’s founding wealth was harvested by trafficked West and Central Africans? Dekine’s poems travel across age and time, signaling that both the past and future exist in the present. Through erasure and persona, Dekine reimagines intergenerational traumas and calls institutions from the Works Progress Administration narratives to modern-day museums to task. Beyond gospel music, fear, and the stories of generations past, Thresh & Hold offers magic, healing, and innovative pathways to manifest intimacy. Dekine remembers, remakes, and brings forth their many selves, traveling far in order to deeply connect to a spiritual home within and all around them, calling: “I am listening to Spirit. I am not dying today.” Marlanda Dekine is the winner of the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, judged by Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Duration - 51m. Author - Marlanda Dekine. Narrator - Marlanda Dekine. Published Date - Sunday, 29 January 2023. Copyright - © 2022 Marlanda Dekine ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:11
The Black River
Duration:00:01:52
Origin
Duration:00:00:57
I Am Bound for de Kingdom
Duration:00:01:20
First Lady of the Church
Duration:00:01:35
If Anybody Asks You What's the Matter with Me
Duration:00:01:07
A Rose
Duration:00:01:06
Hurricane Family
Duration:00:01:16
My Grandma Told Stories or Cautionary Tales
Duration:00:01:01
We Opened the Box Tucked Way Back in the Closet
Duration:00:00:52
My Black, Rural, Queer Childhood
Duration:00:01:16
Non-Linear
Duration:00:01:24
Police in Plantersville Elementary School
Duration:00:00:55
Ma
Duration:00:01:39
Jackson Village Road
Duration:00:01:24
Daddy, the Dreamer
Duration:00:00:38
My Daddy Gave Me Brandy When I Turned Sixteen
Duration:00:00:57
The Shade Tree
Duration:00:00:47
Childhood Lessons from the Girl Next Door
Duration:00:00:55
When the Preacher Was God
Duration:00:01:35
Collecting Myself
Duration:00:00:58
Thresh & Hold
Duration:00:01:37
Perhaps I Am A Fugitive of Empathy
Duration:00:01:49
A Holy Place
Duration:00:01:25
When I Build
Duration:00:00:37
Why We Say "The Village"?
Duration:00:01:17
Face
Duration:00:00:54
Plantersville, South Carolina
Duration:00:02:57
Recordkeeper
Duration:00:01:35
Shifting Shape
Duration:00:01:27
Granddaddy's Tools
Duration:00:00:43
Grain Memory
Duration:00:02:15
Paris, 2019
Duration:00:00:34
At a 24-hour Bar in New Orleans an Anonymous Human Tells Me E Wants to Die
Duration:00:01:23
Wa E Go Ova Dat Big Ole Wata Fa?
Duration:00:02:01
Home Body
Duration:00:00:47
Pine Tree
Duration:00:01:09
Memories of Emotional Labor
Duration:00:01:35
the madness that unchains itself
Duration:00:01:26
If You Really Real, You'd Jump Off This Bridge With Us, For Us
Duration:00:02:05
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:31