re: f (gesture): poems by Percival Everett. Los Angeles. 2006. Black Goat. 1597090573. Series editor: Chris Abani. 70 pages. paperback. Cover art: Percival Everett.

DESCRIPTION - Praise for Percival Everett: “. . . Artful and literate, Everett explores the philosophical, the metaphysical, the physical and the psychological boundaries of human life . . .” ―Terry D’Auray. “. . . Everett achieves a primal sense of dislocation, forcing us to question how we determine the limits of the human . . . ” ―Sven Birkets, The New York Times. “. . . The audacious, uncategorizable Everett. He mixes genre and tone with absolute abandon, never does the same song twice. Brilliant . . .” ―The Boston Globe. “. . . An author who dances with language as effortlessly as Fred Astaire.” ―Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - Percival Everett (born December 22, 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is best known for his novels Erasure (2001), I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), and The Trees (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Erasure was adapted as the film American Fiction (2023), written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, and Leslie Uggams.

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