Canticles
is a lyric-styled epic. This second testament—
Canticles II (MMXIX)
and
Canticles II (MMXX)
—issues re-readings—revisions, rewrites—of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) follows Testament I (also issued in two parts—
Canticles I (MMXVI)
Canticles I (MMXVII)
) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence.
Canticles II
, the second part of a trilogy, is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: Poetry.