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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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 ©.
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English
Opening Credits
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The Black River
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Origin
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I Am Bound for de Kingdom
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First Lady of the Church
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If Anybody Asks You What's the Matter with Me
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A Rose
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Hurricane Family
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My Grandma Told Stories or Cautionary Tales
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We Opened the Box Tucked Way Back in the Closet
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My Black, Rural, Queer Childhood
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Non-Linear
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Police in Plantersville Elementary School
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Ma
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Jackson Village Road
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Daddy, the Dreamer
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My Daddy Gave Me Brandy When I Turned Sixteen
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The Shade Tree
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Childhood Lessons from the Girl Next Door
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When the Preacher Was God
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Collecting Myself
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Thresh & Hold
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Perhaps I Am A Fugitive of Empathy
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A Holy Place
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When I Build
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Why We Say "The Village"?
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Face
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Plantersville, South Carolina
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Recordkeeper
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Shifting Shape
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Granddaddy's Tools
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Grain Memory
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Paris, 2019
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At a 24-hour Bar in New Orleans an Anonymous Human Tells Me E Wants to Die
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Wa E Go Ova Dat Big Ole Wata Fa?
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Home Body
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Pine Tree
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Memories of Emotional Labor
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the madness that unchains itself
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If You Really Real, You'd Jump Off This Bridge With Us, For Us
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Ending Credits
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