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) and 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.