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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 01 > Saved by a poem

Saved by a poem

Nature author says he’s been ‘spouting’ poetry since age 3

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....

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