Testament III: What the Deal?

The third volume of The Testaments 1995–2025, What the Deal?, reflects the influence of the spoken word and slam poetry movements that shaped a generation of writers. Although many of these poems began in performance, Rashid Darden has revised them for the page as part of this collected edition.

Here, The Testaments turns its attention toward the wider world. The poems reflect Darden’s growing interest in public life while continuing the personal narrative that runs throughout the series.

One life. Eight books. Thirty years of poetry.