My Favorite
Books
"The Great Central Valley California's
Heartland"
by Stephen
Johnson, Gerald haslam, and Robert Dawson
"Indian Summer" by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield
"Highway 99" by various valley talents
"Red Dirt ...growing up okie" by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
"It's Always Something...........Gilda Radner
"The Sixteenth Round".............Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
My favorite poet......Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
I am proud to call Wilma a friend. She is one of the greatest and most unique poets I've ever read. An Oklahoma Dustbowl migrant like my parents, I truly identify with her writing. Here is a list of my favorites: