Sonnets for a Missing Key

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. It's 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. 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 Eve