Sonnets for a Missing Key

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These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin.

Do keys matter Do they speak to different parts of us Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental sonnets seek to question timbre and tone. That's bullshit. They are just sonnets.

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Percival Everett is the author of fifteen novels, among them The Water Cure, Erasure, and Glyph. He is the author of the poetry collection Abstraktion und Einfhlung, the coauthor of A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel), and provided annotations for Akashics publication of The Jefferson Bible. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.