| Canticles II: (MMXX): MMXX Volume 280 Contributor(s): Clarke, George Elliott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771835486 ISBN-13: 9781771835480 Publisher: Guernica Editions OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Epic - Poetry | American - African American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2020448207 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6" W x 9" (2.20 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. 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. |