In "Outside the Hat" lies a landscape of CanaDada and SurRielism, populated by dancing medieval woodcuts, Franglais-speaking dogs, sadistic provincial politicians and melodious bison. Including work culled from a plethora of micro-press chapbooks such as "Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog, The Irridescent Phlegm of Bagpipers Glorious with Flu, " and "The Stars Are a Pale Pox on the Sky's Dark Chicken, " this is the definitive Gary Barwin collection: stranger than you (can) think.