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...

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Opening Credits

1/28/2023

The Black River

1/28/2023

Origin

1/28/2023

I Am Bound for de Kingdom

1/28/2023

First Lady of the Church

1/28/2023

If Anybody Asks You What's the Matter with Me

1/28/2023

A Rose

1/28/2023

Hurricane Family

1/28/2023

My Grandma Told Stories or Cautionary Tales

1/28/2023

We Opened the Box Tucked Way Back in the Closet

1/28/2023

My Black, Rural, Queer Childhood

1/28/2023

Non-Linear

1/28/2023

Police in Plantersville Elementary School

1/28/2023

Ma

1/28/2023

Jackson Village Road

1/28/2023

Daddy, the Dreamer

1/28/2023

My Daddy Gave Me Brandy When I Turned Sixteen

1/28/2023

The Shade Tree

1/28/2023

Childhood Lessons from the Girl Next Door

1/28/2023

When the Preacher Was God

1/28/2023

Collecting Myself

1/28/2023

Thresh & Hold

1/28/2023

Perhaps I Am A Fugitive of Empathy

1/28/2023

A Holy Place

1/28/2023

When I Build

1/28/2023

Why We Say "The Village"?

1/28/2023

Face

1/28/2023

Plantersville, South Carolina

1/28/2023

Recordkeeper

1/28/2023

Shifting Shape

1/28/2023

Granddaddy's Tools

1/28/2023

Grain Memory

1/28/2023

Paris, 2019

1/28/2023

At a 24-hour Bar in New Orleans an Anonymous Human Tells Me E Wants to Die

1/28/2023

Wa E Go Ova Dat Big Ole Wata Fa?

1/28/2023

Home Body

1/28/2023

Pine Tree

1/28/2023

Memories of Emotional Labor

1/28/2023

the madness that unchains itself

1/28/2023

If You Really Real, You'd Jump Off This Bridge With Us, For Us

1/28/2023

Ending Credits

1/28/2023