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When Rap Spoke Straight to God
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ISBN10: 1947793039
ISBN13: 9781947793033
Publisher: Zando
Published: Sep 18 2018
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781947793033
Publisher: Zando
Published: Sep 18 2018
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A book-length poem navigating belief, black lives, the tragedies of Trump, and the boundaries of being a woman. When Rap Spoke Straight to God is utterly transporting. In language both elevated and slangy, saucy and tender, Dawson lovingly weaves the reader around her finger. --Jennifer Egan When Rap Spoke Straight to God isn't sacred or profane, but a chorus joined in a single soliloquy, demanding to be heard. There's Wu-Tang and Mary Magdelene with a foot fetish, Lil' Kim and a self-loving Lilith. Slurs, catcalls, verses, erasures--Dawson asks readers, Just how far is it to nigger? Both grounded and transcendent, the book is reality and possibility. Dawson's work has always been raw; but, When Rap Spoke Straight to God is as blunt as the answer to that earlier question: Here. Sometimes abrasive and often abraded, Dawson doesn't flinch.
A mix of traditional forms where sonnets mash up with sestinas morphing to heroic couplets, When Rap Spoke Straight to God insists that while you may recognize parts of the poem's world, you can't anticipate how it will evolve.
With a literal exodus of light in the book's final moments, When Rap Spoke Straight to God is a lament for and a celebration of blackness. It's never depression; it's defiance--a persistent resistance. In this book, like Wu-Tang says, the marginalized ain't nothing to f--- with.
With a literal exodus of light in the book's final moments, When Rap Spoke Straight to God is a lament for and a celebration of blackness. It's never depression; it's defiance--a persistent resistance. In this book, like Wu-Tang says, the marginalized ain't nothing to f--- with.
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