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Author of the instant national bestsellers, James and Erasure the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film American Fiction Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, Sonnets for a Missing Key. Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these sonnets leap and turn through philosophical musings accrued across a life well lived, with inventive language, crystalline imagery, and turns of phrase that lift off the page and glimmer. Everett's sonnets soar through the musical scale, from A Minor to A Major, exploring relationships, spirituality, compassion, despair, and how the stories we tell ourselves shape our realities. Everett continuously defies convention with every creative expression and brings his literary audacity back to his poetic roots with this, his sixth collection with Red Hen Press. Sonnets for a Missing Key is a mesmerising feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.

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"Featured in the Shelf Unbound list of 2024 Indie Summer Reads ""Wry and epigrammatic, these poems inventively challenge and expand the possibilities of form.""—Publishers Weekly “Percival Everett is a genre.”—Kiese Laymon⁠, author of the author of Long Division and MacArthur Fellow ""I feel very deeply that he is one of the most profoundly talented writers of all time."" —Robin Coste Lewis, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus and National Book Award for Poetry Winner ""Percival Everett’s body of work has been called many things—experimental, idiosyncratic, ‘gleefully unhinged’—and perhaps most frequently, prolific."" —Lisa Tolin, Editorial Director at PEN America ""Everett's formally virtuosic latest collection... interrogates the sonnet form as both a mode for thought and a vehicle for sonic inquiry and play... Wry and epigrammatic, these poems inventively challenge and expand the possibilities of form."" —Publishers Weekly"

"""Percival Everett is a genre.""--Kiese Laymon⁠, author of the author of Long Division and MacArthur Fellowship Grantee ""I feel very deeply that he is one of the most profoundly talented writers of all time."" --Robin Coste Lewis, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus and National Book Award for Poetry Winner ""Percival Everett's body of work has been called many things--experimental, idiosyncratic, 'gleefully unhinged'--and perhaps most frequently, prolific."" --Lisa Tolin, Editorial Director at PEN America"

"“Percival Everett is a genre.”—Kiese Laymon⁠, author of the author of Long Division and MacArthur Fellowship Grantee ""I feel very deeply that he is one of the most profoundly talented writers of all time."" —Robin Coste Lewis, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus and National Book Award for Poetry Winner ""Percival Everett’s body of work has been called many things—experimental, idiosyncratic, ‘gleefully unhinged’—and perhaps most frequently, prolific."" —Lisa Tolin, Editorial Director at PEN America"

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Percival Everett is the author of fifteen novels, among them The Water Cure, Erasure, and Glyph. He is the author of the poetry collection Abstraktion und Einfhlung, the coauthor of A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel), and provided annotations for Akashic's publication of The Jefferson Bible. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

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