Testament VIII: I Am Him

I Am Him concludes The Testaments 1995–2025, bringing together poems shaped by experience, faith, humor, and self-understanding. Looking back across three decades of writing, Rashid Darden reflects with gratitude, candor, and an abiding sense of curiosity about the life he has lived and the person he has become.

As the final volume of The Testaments, this collection offers the perspective of a poet who has learned to hold both certainty and mystery at once. It brings the series to a thoughtful close while recognizing that every ending is also the beginning of another chapter.

One life. Eight books. Thirty years of poetry.