Ekiwah adler belendez biography for kids

Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez is a prodigy in search of a miracle.
He was 10 weeks premature and weighed barely 2 pounds when he was born in the tiny Indian village of Amatlán de Quetzalcoatl in southern Mexico.
Doctors in the town’s tiny clinic managed to save his life.

But his parents soon discovered their infant had cerebral palsy and paralytic scoliosis.
Now 16, Ekiwah has never walked on his own, his hip is dislocating from its joint and his spine is so contorted doctors say the pain will eventually become unbearable.
But Ekiwah – which means “warrior” in the language of the Purépecha – is also a poetic prodigy whose powerful verses have mesmerized Mexico’s literary scene.
When the boy was only 3, his mother, Rosa Beléndez, a Mexican homeopathic doctor, and his father, Robert Adler, an American carpenter and native of Yonkers, noticed that the boy began reciting poetic phrases he concocted in his head.
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