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• The day after his retirement, Chris had a hemorrhagic stroke that paralyzed his right side of the body. The Language area of his brain was the most affected tansforming  him into a child. To survive was a valuable test for his body  Than he had to learn again the meaning of the words and to start writing  with his left hand. His choice to

• The day after his retirement, Chris had a hemorrhagic stroke that paralyzed his right side of the body. The Language area of his brain was the most affected tansforming  him into a child. To survive was a valuable test for his body  Than he had to learn again the meaning of the words and to start writing  with his left hand. His choice to express himself  literary  was so strong  that his brain responded to his wish and the  memory remembered his work. It took 2 years until his previous writing got unveiled and than he  just  needed to complete his poems. Prepared with a recorder, the notebook and  his typewriter Chris  was ready to respond to his inspiration  which was surprising his creative side.  
•  For 14 years
•  thepoetryalive@gmail.

H. Christopher Erb never felt that  he was disabled. Sitting in his wheelchair, he read and wrote every day and some nights as well. With continuous work  he produced over a dozen notebooks with his writing. By 2020 he was selecting  from the text for publication. The title of his book is  " Where The Body Begins " focusing the expression

H. Christopher Erb never felt that  he was disabled. Sitting in his wheelchair, he read and wrote every day and some nights as well. With continuous work  he produced over a dozen notebooks with his writing. By 2020 he was selecting  from the text for publication. The title of his book is  " Where The Body Begins " focusing the expression on the extent of our spiritual dept and  his wonder about this life. By allowing the intuition to  inspire him of word combinations resulting in more contemplation around his thoughts. Chris was a thinker since he could remember.  We lost him to Covid but his poetry which was  center line of his every day existence  was 

left  to us and constitutes a gift