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 Roughead's 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.