“Book Descriptions:The second collection from poet and artist Sarah J. Sloat, whose Hotel Almighty was a NYTEditors’ Choice pick.
Classic Crimes is a book of visual poetry sourced from William Roughead’s true-crime classic of the same name.In these erasure poems, “April is one of the broken folk,’” and “to sleep…[is] an interlude of little dinners.” Each page bears its own cunning erasure poem layered with colorful mixed-media collage, the result a joyous and gleeful romp through time.” DRIVE