"Your favorite writer's writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone's fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of must-read sonnets, remixes Chopin and Tatum in startling, elegiac new shapes." -- Entertainment Weekly ".this is a book for both the poetry lover and the musician in your life, or for you, if you've given up on poetry for some reason, or never listened to Art Tatum, or need to find a good reason to listen to him again. It's no wonder that a fellow writer has written, "Percival Everett is a genre." Unto himself."-- Larry Wilson , Pasadena Star-News "Wry and epigrammatic, these poems inventively challenge and expand the possibilities of form."--Publishers Weekly Featured in the Shelf Unbound list of 2024 Indie Summer Reads "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.