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Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler, by Trudi Kanter

On my birthday I like to make a trip to Warwick’s in La Jolla to find a book I didn’t know I wanted to read. This year Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler caught my eye. It’s a memoir written by the Viennese milliner, Trudi Kanter, in the time of Hitler. It was my love … Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler, by Trudi Kanter

13 Ways of Looking at a Black Hat

I’ve had two love affairs for as long as I can remember, with poetry and with hats. Mother Goose rhymes and rain bonnets, jump rope songs and sun caps, lullabies and snuggly warm beanies. For a long time, I’ve been wanting to write a poem about hats, and then this fall I took Robert Pinsky’s “The … 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Hat