The Sicknesses of Hats
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1982
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864920249
- Publish Date
- Jan 1982
- List Price
- $6.95
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Description
The Sickness of Hats is an early collection by a member of the writing ensemble Pain Not Bread.
About the author
KIM MALTMAN is a poet, theoretical particle physicist, and occasional translator who has published five books of solo poetry, over two hundred papers in the scientific literature, and three books of collaborative poetry, most recently Box Kite, published in 2016. In addition to recent solo work which has appeared under a variety of heteronyms, he is involved, in collaboration with Roo Borson, in ongoing translations of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai and Song Dynasty poet Su Shi. Past honours include the CBC Literary Prize, and, with collaborators Roo Borson and Andy Patton, the Malahat Poetry Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and two National Magazine Award finalist appearances. Perhaps his most unusual literary credit is having served as consulting dog poetry editor for André Alexis’s novel Fifteen Dogs. He lives in Toronto with poet and collaborator Roo Borson. Baziju are currently at work on a new manuscript project called Short Moral Tales.