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Sonnets for a Missing Key

Sonnets for a Missing Key

Sonnets for a Missing Key Paperback - 2024

by Percival Everett

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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.

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  • Title Sonnets for a Missing Key
  • Author Percival Everett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Red Hen Press
  • Publication date 2024
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SQ1755225
  • ISBN 9781636281667 / 1636281664
  • Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.6 x 0.4 in (20.32 x 14.22 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Sonnets
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024001605
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Poetry

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From the publisher

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 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.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 07/01/2024, Page 94
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/20/2024, Page 0

About the author

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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