Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, 88; poet had written of Dust Bowl migrants in state
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, “the Okie poet” because of the down-home design whose writings reflected the full life of her brethren, Dust Bowl migrants whom stumbled on Central Ca throughout the Great Depression, has died. She had been 88.
McDaniel, whom additionally had been the poet laureate of Tulare, Calif., passed away April 13 of problems linked to later years at a Tulare remainder house, said her buddy Katherine Andes.
“We are not likely to see her like again,” Gerald Haslam, who’s got written books that are many Ca, told the days. “She had been the California Walt Whitman — she took ordinary language and switched it into one thing magical.”
gravy claims a great deal
about us individuals
the southern fried .
. the way in which it stretches out
from payday till
