Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature was the 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection from the Academy of American Poets, which recognizes a poet's second collection of poetry. Crime Against Nature has been long out of print, until now. This new edition includes an introduction by Julie R. Enszer, a new afterword by Pratt, a reprint of Pratt's speech at the Lamont award ceremony, photographs of Pratt and her family, and a bibliography.