Book of Hats Poems

"The poems in the Book of Hats were written while the author was working at the Shlock Shop on Grant Avenue in the North Beach district of San Francisco....Old Indian baskets, whales' teeth, antique dentist tools, sock monkey dolls, political and labor buttons from the thirties, old beer cans, Eskimo knitting tools and hundreds of other old relics are clogged into the many glass cabinets and cases that line the walls and floor space. Hats are everywhere - stacked on shelves, swinging on durmmies' heads from the rafters and hanging on nails from the walls.... These poems are transcriptions of his interactions with people who came into the dark shadows of the Shlock Shop and left some part of their being there. The poems reveal the humor and poignancy of the human person that we so often forget to notice in the techno-electro speed of contemporary life."Cohen, Allen is the author of 'Book of Hats Poems', published 2004 under ISBN 9781587900624 and ISBN 1587900629.