Canticles is a lyric-styled epic.
Testament II--these Canticles II (MMXIX) and next 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 is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous.
It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: poetry.
About author(s): A revered poet, George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains, in 1960.
A graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.
, Hons.
,1984), Dalhousie University (M.
, 1989), and Queen's University (Ph.
, 1993), he is now the inaugural E.
Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.
Clarke's also taught at Duke University, McGill University, the University of British Columbia, and at Harvard University.
He has also worked as a researcher, newspaper editor, social worker, parliamentary aide, and newspaper columnist).
He lives in Toronto, Ontario, but he also owns land in Nova Scotia.
| Anyway | Poetry |
|---|---|
| About author(s) | A revered poet |
