Stories and Poems from Close to Home edit by Floyd Salas Ortalda & Associates, 1986.  Anthology

Close to home. Home to the Beat poets of San Francisco, the Street poets of Berkeley, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz and Pulitzer Prize winner Carolyn Kizer.         Home to critically-acclaimed novelists and short story writers like Herbert Gold, James D. Houston, Leonard Gardner, Thomas Sanchez, Gerald Haslam, Leonard Michaels and Gerald Rosen.      Home to poets with names like Ishmael Reed, Diana O Hehir, Robert Hass, Al Young, John Logan, Eugene Ruggles, Jack Micheline, Josephine Miles, Leonard Nathan and Nanos Valaorities.       And home to previously undiscovered talents with powerful insights into worlds as diverse as Peninsula halfway houses and San Quentin jailscells.       Their writings are here, close to home, in an anthology of powerful and original writing from that Athens of modern times, the communities that surround San Francisco Bay.

"An unusually full and noteworthy collection of prose and poetry. A collection of voices -- not merely of names, although names are here aplenty -- but of writers who are not in flight from emotion."

- Marek Breiger

"Wonderful finds . . . pieces of rare power. Close to Home is an unusual find."

- Santa Cruz Sentinel