Sonnets for a Missing Key

<p><strong>AUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, <em>JAMES</em></strong></p> <p><strong>AUTHOR OF <em>ERASURE</em>, now adapted for the screen as the OSCAR-WINNING FILM, <em>AMERICAN FICTION</em></strong></p> <p><strong>Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, <em>SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY</em></strong></p> <p>“Few writers pay more rapt attention to the fact that history is, fundamentally, storytelling. … A pebble in every shoe. It’s the Everett way.”<strong>—<em>New York Times</em></strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><em>Sonnets for a Missing Key</em> is a mesmerizing feat of language that reinforces Percival Everett as one of the great wordsmiths of the century.</p>