Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett

Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett

Sonnets for a Missing Key is a mesmerising feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.

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 Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novels include James (instant bestseller), Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. His most recent poetry collections include The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson (winner of the 2020 IPPY Award in Most Original Concept) and Trout’s Lie. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.

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ISBN 13	9781636281667
ISBN 10	1636281664
Title	Sonnets for a Missing Key
Author	Percival Everett
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Red Hen Press
Year published	2024-10-03
Number of pages	64
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.