Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and poetry. Among his works are James, The Trees, Erasure, and Dr. No. He has been awarded the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, a Creative Capital Award, and a Guggenheim. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
"Featured in the Shelf Unbound list of 2024 Indie Summer Reads ""Wry and epigrammatic, these poems inventively challenge and expand the possibilities of form.""—Publishers Weekly “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 ""Everett's formally virtuosic latest collection... interrogates the sonnet form as both a mode for thought and a vehicle for sonic inquiry and play... Wry and epigrammatic, these poems inventively challenge and expand the possibilities of form."" —Publishers Weekly"