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In this article, the author tells her own story of surviving the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles, and how the practice of memorizing poetry helped her to recover from that trauma.
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Bly, R. (1980). News of the universe. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
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Petermann, S. Poetry Memorization and Trauma: Surviving an Earthquake. J Poetry Ther 9, 149–154 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391479
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