2 hrs 17 mins | BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Cultural, Ethnic and RegionalIn a strange twist of kismet, Remica Bingham-Risher's paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives in Petersburg, Virginia in 1937, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight, is sent to Petersburg in 1941, diagnosed with "water on the brain"—postpartum depression being an ongoing mystery—nine days after birthing her first child. Braiding meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection of poems treads the murky waters of race, lineage...
In a strange twist of kismet, Remica Bingham-Risher's paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives in Petersburg, Virginia in 1937, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight, is sent to Petersburg in 1941, diagnosed with "water on the brain"—postpartum depression being an ongoing mystery—nine days after birthing her first child. Braiding meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection of poems treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, women's rights, and the violent reckoning that inhabits the discrepancy between lived versus textbook history, asking: What do we inherit when trauma is at the core of our fractured living? Utilizing primary and secondary sources, Bingham-Risher weaves together a richly textured vision of her foremothers' everyday and exceptional living: two very different women at opposite ends of their lives, converging upon the same space and time. The lives these women inhabit and generations they fostered add infinite layers to the fabric of the American tapestry. Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered portrait of all that is held in the line between the private and public, the investigative and generative, the self and those who came before us.
| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 001 Room Swept Home - Opening Credits |
0 mins 12 secs |
| 2. | 002 Dedication |
0 mins 25 secs |
| 3. | 003 Epigraph |
0 mins 16 secs |
| 4. | 004 Lost Friends |
2 mins 13 secs |
| 5. | 005 In the Corridor |
9 mins 29 secs |
| 6. | 006 Birth Story |
1 mins 42 secs |
| 7. | 007 On the Plantation |
5 mins 54 secs |
| 8. | 008 Battle of the Crater |
1 mins 22 secs |
| 9. | 009 April When de War Surrendered |
1 mins 08 secs |
| 10. | 010 Wanderlust |
1 mins 10 secs |
| 11. | 011 Strip Tobacco Like Greens |
1 mins 46 secs |
| 12. | 012 Work Song |
1 mins 21 secs |
| 13. | 013 Questions That Still Need Answering |
4 mins 05 secs |
| 14. | 014 Putting Mother in the Ground |
2 mins 07 secs |
| 15. | 015 Catching Babies |
1 mins 44 secs |
| 16. | 016 Ruddy |
1 mins 13 secs |
| 17. | 017 Seems Like We're Building a City |
1 mins 15 secs |
| 18. | 018 Rioting Breaks Out |
1 mins 55 secs |
| 19. | 019 The Great Depression |
1 mins 39 secs |
| 20. | 020 Night Class, Peabody High School |
1 mins 29 secs |
| 21. | 021 The Tenderness of One Woman for Another |
1 mins 44 secs |
| 22. | 022 Perhaps Minnie Sees Mary and Prays for Her Safekeeping |
2 mins 39 secs |
| 23. | 023 Mary Etta Knight |
1 mins 19 secs |
| 24. | 024 Victims Killed In 1922 |
2 mins 02 secs |
| 25. | 025 Mary Perfects the Charleston |
2 mins 03 secs |
| 26. | 026 Dear Doll |
3 mins 29 secs |
| 27. | 027 June 18, 1941 |
1 mins 07 secs |
| 28. | 028 Mary Taken to the Central Lunatic Asylum |
1 mins 44 secs |
| 29. | 029 Master Index-Case Record |
2 mins 32 secs |
| 30. | 030 The Color Blue Was Full of Darkness |
1 mins 06 secs |
| 31. | 031 To Calm the Mind |
1 mins 54 secs |
| 32. | 032 A Fish Has Broken From the Water Its Rod of a Body |
1 mins 36 secs |
| 33. | 033 Two Months and Thirteen Days |
1 mins 14 secs |
| 34. | 034 Life's An Ever-turning Wheel |
1 mins 21 secs |
| 35. | 035 Clean White Homes and Smiling Black Servants |
0 mins 52 secs |
| 36. | 036 Child with Playthings in Black and White |
0 mins 55 secs |
| 37. | 037 Tweedle Dee, LaVern Baker |
1 mins 43 secs |
| 38. | 038 The Negro Travelers' Green Book, 1957 |
1 mins 34 secs |
| 39. | 039 Remains of the Stained Glass Windows |
1 mins 46 secs |
| 40. | 040 Rainy Night in Georgia, Brook Benton |
2 mins 16 secs |
| 41. | 041 Ars Poetica #214 |
3 mins 02 secs |
| 42. | 042 The Two White Women I Cleaned For Send Checks Until the Day I Die |
1 mins 37 secs |
| 43. | 043 Mary Admires James Brown's Casket |
2 mins 26 secs |
| 44. | 044 There Is Going to Be a Resurrection |
1 mins 26 secs |
| 45. | 045 Commemorative Headdress For Her Journey Beyond Heaven |
2 mins 50 secs |
| 46. | 046 Eden Before the Fall |
1 mins 02 secs |
| 47. | 047 White Children and the Intimate Landscape of Defeat |
1 mins 35 secs |
| 48. | 048 The Black Mammy |
0 mins 57 secs |
| 49. | 049 25 Days After I Am Born |
2 mins 10 secs |
| 50. | 050 Because the Scale of Our Breathing Is Planetary, At the Very Least |
3 mins 28 secs |
| 51. | 051 The Domestic Who Is the Bearer of the Present |
1 mins 24 secs |
| 52. | 052 The Lose Your Mother Suite |
19 mins 09 secs |
| 53. | 053 What Survived |
2 mins 38 secs |
| 54. | 054 Where Did You Come From |
0 mins 54 secs |
| 55. | 055 There Is Nothing In Your Story That Says You Should Be Here |
2 mins 01 secs |
| 56. | 056 In My Best Dreams They Are On the Water |
2 mins 23 secs |
| 57. | 057 Refusing Rilke's You must change your life |
1 mins 26 secs |
| 58. | 058 I Am Trying to Carve Out A World Where People Are Not The Sum Total of Their Disaster |
2 mins 40 secs |
| 59. | 059 Room Swept Home |
1 mins 09 secs |
| 60. | 060 Credits |
0 mins 34 secs |
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