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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By David Jasper / The Bulletin
November 1, 2008
“Poetry has literally saved my life,” said Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez, 21.
That probably sounds like bombastic talk from a young poet. It is not.
Adler-Beléndez, who has cerebral palsy and was raised by his American father and Mexican mother in a village a couple....