RaveThe Arkansas International\"When Rap Spoke Straight to God is a raucous and irreverent book-length poem that refuses to sit still ... [Dawson\'s]considered and formally astounding poetics are deeply aware of formalism’s fraught history as a bulwark of the traditional literary canon, which excludes POC like her ... When Rap Spoke Straight to God is a complex and transcendent response to our dangerous era.\
