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Quake's Artistic Aftershocks: Chengdu Poetry

Chengdu poet He Xiaozhu
Andrea Hsu/NPR
Chengdu poet He Xiaozhu

Chengdu, China, is known as a city of writers — with an especially strong community of poets.

Last week's earthquake has already started filtering into local writers' works.

Here are two poems by Chengdu poets about the earthquake.

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At the time of the earthquake, 45-year-old He Xiaozhu was working on a novel on the second floor of a teahouse in Chengdu.

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