Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Testament II issues re-readings?revisions, rewrites?of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) and Canticles II (MMXX) follow Testament I (also issued in two parts) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: Poetry. | Canticles II: (MMXX) by George Elliott Clarke, Paperback | Indigo Chapters