| Summary: | Celebrating his seventh year, Tim Seibles presents With No Hat, a new collection with a long history. Energized and original, With No Hat also offers a retrospective of Seibles' life and career-including his signature sassy villanelles, pop up cameos of cartoon characters, meditations on aging, death, identity and at-one-ment with all beings and leading the parade-the main character, the poem itself, lithe and mischievous, not only bareheaded, but in the full glory of his birthday suit. Yeats says, "I made my song a coat, but there's more enterprise in walking naked." With No Hat enterprises, strides, sprints, gavottes and tiptoes through a life work of forging imagination into unforgettable tableaus, spanning self and other, and embracing and assessing, with Seibles' empathic but cold eye, our culture and our lives in mortal crisis.
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