{"product_id":"9781947793033","title":"When Rap Spoke Straight to God","description":"By: Erica Dawson     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book-length poem navigating belief, black lives, the tragedies of Trump, and the boundaries of being a woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhen Rap Spoke Straight to God\u003c\/i\u003e is utterly transporting. In language both elevated and slangy, saucy and tender, Dawson lovingly weaves the reader around her finger.” —Jennifer Egan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Rap Spoke Straight to God \u003c\/i\u003eisn’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.  \u003cbr\u003eA mix of traditional forms where sonnets mash up with sestinas morphing to heroic couplets, \u003ci\u003eWhen Rap Spoke Straight to God\u003c\/i\u003e insists that while you may recognize parts of the poem’s world, you can’t anticipate how it will evolve.   \u003cbr\u003eWith a literal exodus of light in the book’s final moments, \u003ci\u003eWhen Rap Spoke Straight to God\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":48456277328099,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781947793033","price":102.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781947793033.jpg?v=1773718072","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9781947793033","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}