Percival Everett's new collection of sonnets, Sonnets for a Missing Key, explores relationships, spirituality, compassion, despair, and how the stories we tell ourselves shape our realities. With inventive language, crystalline imagery, and turns of phrase that lift off the page, Everett's sonnets soar through the musical scale, from A Minor to A Major.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 64 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2024
Publisher: Red Hen Press

AUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, JAMES

AUTHOR OF ERASURE ,now adapted for the screen as the OSCAR-WINNING FILM, AMERICAN FICTION

Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY

“Few writers pay more rapt attention to the fact that history is,fundamentally,storytelling. … A pebble in every shoe. Its the Everett way.” — New York Times

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. Everetts 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 mesmerizing feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781636281667