Classic Crimes

The sophomore collection from poet and artist Sarah J. Sloat, whose Hotel Almighty was a NYT Editors Choice pick.Classic Crimes is a book of visual poetry sourced from William Rougheads true-crime classic of the same name.In these erasure poems, to face cruelty is a melancholy accident, and to sleep[is] an interlude of little dinners. Each page bears its own cunning erasure poem adorned in colorful mixed-media collage, the result a joyous and gleeful romp through time.