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.
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Sarah J. Sloat's poems, prose and collage have appeared in Seneca Review, Diagram, Shenandoah, and many other publications. In 2020, Sarabande published her book of visual poetry, Hotel Almighty. Born in New Jersey, Sarah has lived for many years in Europe, where she works in news.