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Poetry News For July 7, 2009

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Jul 072009

— THE ART NAMED SYMBOLIST; AN AMERICAN INVASION IN FRENCH PROSE AND POETRY. Poe the Model of Charies Ravdelaire {SIC} and Stephane Mallarine {SIC} and Inspirer of the Little Literary Revolution Which Is Leading France Triumphantly to the End of the Century — AEsthetics and Philosophy of the New Writers Replacing the Feebly Fallen into Pessimism. November 19, 1893, Wednesday —

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— Songbirds Reveal How Practice Improves Performance —

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— “Yeehaw! The positive reviews continue to come in!” —

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— Today, a restrained and elegant examination of a dangerously emotive subject —

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— An Enchanting Tour Through A World Of Idioms —

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— Impoverished publisher Dedalus in desperate search for university patron —

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— Mark Jarman from How a Poem Happens —

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— She Writes: new social networking site for women writers —

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— As with “What Is Found There,” an earlier collection of Adrienne Rich’s essays, her new book, “A Human Eye” is almost impossible to get through . . . but for the very best of reasons. —

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— “The poems aren’t all great, but they all seem necessary. I like it when writers aren’t afraid to show how their tastes and perceptions are a kind of limitation. “ —

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— The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) has announced its 2009 book award winners —

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— The poems throughout the collection are unpredictable and have the ability to travel great distances. —

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FYI:

“We would like to encourage you to attend this Wednesday’s talk by Peter Grossenbacher, Ph.D. of Naropa University, on Meditation and the Brain. Dr. Gossenbacher is at Vanderbilt this week for presentations at an international Tai Chi Symposium, and has been generous enough to play hookey Wednesday night to address the Buddhist community and other interested people at the 12South Dharma Center.”

“It is a fascinating subject, and quite in line with the scientific nature of Buddhist practice in general (“Don’t believe anything; just look and see for yourself what is true”), and the secular approach of Shambhala in particular. There is no fee for this talk so that anyone can attend, but the Nashville Shambhala Group would like to compensate Dr. Grossenbacher as much as we can, so any small donations will be helpful.”

“The talk begins at 7:00, so please come a bit early to minimize disruptions in the room. Dress comfortably for sitting on cushions on the floor or in a chair, as Peter will include a guided meditation to illustrate his subject matter.”

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Poetry News For June 24, 2009

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Jun 242009

— Adrienne Rich studies the space between art and politics in new collection of essays —

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— Discover poetry @ ALA Annual Conference —

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— It’s official: A Murmuration of Starlings is the winner of the 2009 Colorado Book Award in Poetry, given by the Colorado Center for the Book. —

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— Famous Quotes: democracy vs plutocracy —

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— Weekly Poem: ‘Graffiti’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —

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— Former U.S. Poet Laureate: The U.S. needs better poets —

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— “Poets aren’t recession-proof,” said Tom Cassidy, who supports his “poetry addiction” with a full-time job —

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— In the second of our walks, we explore the towns and countryside beloved by the iconic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas —

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— The idea is simple: write a short poem involving both dogs and physics in one of the usual short verse forms (haiku, limerick, double dactyl, whatever, as long as it has some sort of rhyme and meter). —

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— The spirit of Hughes and Plath is alive in West Yorkshire —

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— Translated By with Shaindel Beers: Shaindel will interview A. M. Juster, translator of The Satires of Horace. [mp3] —

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— An Appreciation of Ai —

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— New research from Vanderbilt University indicates the way our brain handles how we move through space–including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else’s shoes–may be related to how and why we experience empathy toward others —

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— The public has been stirred by the scandal related to translator Dao Kim Hoa, a member of the Vietnam Writers’ Association, who has reportedly stole some poems by poets Huu Thinh and Lo Ngan Sun. Hoa said that it is a misunderstanding. —

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— How frequently do I get “exciting” submissions? More frequently than I thought I would. —

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— Publisher says it was a mistake to offer gift cards to those who would give top ratings on Amazon or Barnes & Noble to a new textbook. —

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— Baseball has become unruly By Hunter S. Thompson —

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— One video features Divine Comedy imagery while the other features imagery from the Biblia Sacra (Sacred Bible); all of the artwork comes from the Park West Dali Collection. The videos give viewers an opportunity to enjoy Dali artwork in a unique way; the works are shown one after the other, each one seemingly morphing into the next, all set to music that perfectly complements the imagery. —

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— ‘Dante’s Inferno’ (PS3/X360) – 12 New Screens —

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— Poet Elizabeth Alexander, DJ Spooky to honor NAACP with new works —

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— Corso: The Last Beat — Film Review —

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— MS Won’t Stop Exene Cervenka —

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— Novelists such as Salman Rushdie and Italy’s Umberto Eco, as well as Nobel laureates in literature including Irish poet Seamus Heaney have also campaigned for him to be set free. —

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I forgot: yesterday was Anna Akhmatova‘s birthday. This is a Lomonosov cup and saucer I got on Ebay shortly after they launched as Ebay.

Haven’t found out anything about it, since then, really. That photo doesn’t do it justice, because the rest of it is just gorgeous & the saucer is too. If you click on the picture you can see a bigger one.

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Poetry News For May 21, 2009

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May 212009

— The Sonnets at 400 and also Did Shakespeare Want To Suppress His Sonnets? —

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— Poet’s Choice: ‘Turning’ By Janice Harrington —

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— We Got a Yeats, You Got a Wallace Stevens —

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— Dharma Poetry: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche —

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— Monkeys playing a game similar to “Let’s Make A Deal” have revealed that their brains register missed opportunities and learn from their mistakes. —

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— Sadly, the mythology of poet Bob Kaufman almost rivals all we have left of his poetry. —

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— a nervy and rich collection of poems in the voices of women both infamous (Moors murderer Myra Hindley and fascist moll Unity Mitford) and writerly (Carson McCullers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Jane Bowles) —

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— Her latest collection of poetry proves Frieda Hughes to be a writer capable of standing on her own —

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— And then there’s the triumph of free verse, which to many people turns poetry into largely banal or incoherent stream of consciousness prose —

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— Naughty Classical Chinese Poetry, And What It Means Today —

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— From Page to Pixels: The Evolution of Online Journals —

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— Boyd argues that art, including fiction, is a unique human adaptation whose chief function is “for improving human cognition, cooperation and creativity” —

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— Diane di Prima — a beat poet, prose writer, playwright, teacher and Excelsior resident — has been named San Francisco’s fifth poet laureate —

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— Yoko Ono to judge Twitter haiku competition —

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— Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites audience to jury duty —

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— Pet Haiku Contest: my top 26 picks (so far) —

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— Pa. poet wins undergraduate literary prize —

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— Pinoy poet to receive Italy’s top prize —

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— The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, HD and the Imagists —

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— ‘YouTube’ for books signs up Random House, Simon & Schuster —

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— Dahlia Ravikovitch, one of Israel’s major poets, played a formative role in both the poetic culture of the state and the undoing of the male dominance in Israeli poetry and culture. —

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— Daring poet mortified by blasphemy case —

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— Are litmags facing more funding cuts? —

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Here is another Ebay scan. New Poetry 1964. [20mb PDF] If there are any copyright objections I’ll take it down.

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Poetry News For May 7, 2009

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May 072009

— reviews of books by BH Fairchild, Frieda Hughes, Michael Blumenthal, Farrah Field, Robert Polito, Ron Slate, Ann Lauterbach, Chelsey Minnis, Lucia Perillo, Joshua Beckman, Russell Edson, & Gregory Orr —

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— From the fuss that some are making – well, the BBC is making anyway – you would think [Bono's poem] was a long-lost sonnet of Shakespeare or at the very least a newly discovered poem by Philip Larkin. —

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— Is he messing with us?: Ethan Coen’s poetry —

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— Poetry Readings and Music by Poet Weldon Kees [mp3] —

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— This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like: what branch of feminism, model of feminist poetics, feminist icon, or etc. informs your poetry? Or, from which of these does your poetry diverge? —

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— Poetry from Duluth’s Holy Cow Press provides comfort for grief [you have to login now durrr] —

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— Police: Mom was writing poem when baby drowned —

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— State’s first poet laureate takes his job seriously —

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— Because most audiences may not know much about Dali, Garcia Lorca and Bunuel, it depends for its box-office appeal on the starring role of Robert Pattinson, the 23-year-old British star of “Twilight” (which was shot after this film). —

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— on Intruder, poems by Jill Bialosky (Knopf) – and an interview with the poet —

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— The decline and fall of books —

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— How Technology Is Changing What We Read —

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— That sensibility caught the eye of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of Saint Thomas, in St. Paul. They’ve awarded her the 13th annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. —

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— The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held July 22-25, 2009, on the campus of Austin Peay State University. —

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— 150-year anniversary of translation of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat by Fitz Gerald —

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— The reclusive Christopher Tolkien has broken his silence to respond via fax to a series of questions about his father’s latest posthumous publication —

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— Welcome to Poetry – the Olympic games of creative writing. —

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— Each of the 29 poems in this collection is an example of a different form, from the familiar couplet, sonnet and haiku to the more exotic aubade (a poem lamenting or celebrating the coming of the dawn) and clerihew (two rhyming couplets that gently poke fun at a celebrity, where the first line is always the subject’s name). —

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— Thousands apply for ‘Prince of Poets’ contest held in Abu Dhabi —

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— Throughout her career as a poet, essayist, and activist, Adrienne Rich has been known for her progressive politics and sharp social critiques. —

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— While the book’s subjects — chiefly the writers Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher (Stowe’s brother), and the painter Martin Johnson Heade — often share social and familial bonds, Benfey never makes much effort to present them as a unified intellectual movement. —

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May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month so I thought I’d mention that here. Link: May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month. EDS is a debilitating, and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder.

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Poetry News For Aprille 28, 2009

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Apr 282009

— Should blog comments be moderated to reduce the number of inevitable “angry, scatological discussion threads?” —

— Conversation: Poet Carl Phillips from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —

— Author Makes Famous Poems Fun For Kids —

— Paul Guest’s Body of Poetry — The Story from American Public Media —

— For Your Health, Pick A Mate Who Is Conscientious And, Perhaps, Also Neurotic —

— Today is the annual Dining Out For Life, and dozens of local eateries are donating anywhere from 30-100% of the day’s sales to Nashville Cares, a locally-based AIDS service organization. —

— Ursula K Le Guin wins sixth Nebula award —

— Margaret Walker might be the “most famous person nobody knows” but the poet, whose works about African-Americans bridged the gap between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s and the black arts movement of the 1960s, will take center stage May 3 at the University of Kansas in a unique musical collaboration not to be missed. —

— Falling In Love With Ideas from David Lynch Foundation Television —

— My book, finalist yet again, has been selected for publication by Dream Horse Press. —

— This week, Michael Tyrell, co-editor of “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn” (NYU Press, 2007), will be answering readers’ questions about the history of Brooklyn’s literary landscape, its place in American poetry and the poets who live and work in the borough. —

— LETTERS: Laureate of the Louche —

— Afghan poets tackle scars of war —

— An Essential American Poet from alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine’s poems. [mp3] —

— Poem of the week: The Mangel-Bury by Ivor Gurney —

— Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Awarded —

— Francisco Goya from Pallimed: Arts & Humanities —

— Are there any ways a smaller publisher can subvert the larger book publishers? To work the currents as a raft in an ocean of big, hulking vessels? —

— West Tisbury Poet Wins Lilly Prize —

— In that 10% are poems about a deathmatch between friends, fantasy role-playing games and the people who love them, and closing time at a bar. Schroeder’s been praised by River Styx’s Richard Newman for his distinctive voice, in which he spins lines such as “Nature is a MILF.” —

— This year’s Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, which took place last month, was more evidence, if one needed any, that Buffalo remains a hotbed of small press activity. —

— Georgia Review ‘throws great parties’ —

— That there might be a Ponzi element in all this is something Mr. McGurl never considers. He thinks that writing programs are the best thing that ever happened to American fiction…. —

— Art mags decry double standard —

— Miss the Tweet? Here are the Minnesota Book Awards winners —

— The Poetics of Hip-Hop | New Hampshire Public Radio | Word of Mouth —

— Jim Powell: Irascible poet with stolen license —

— ‘Casey at the Bat’ author had local roots —

— What poem are you going to carry in your pocket on April 30 [Poem in Your Pocket Day]? —

— Boston honors Poe, a native son who shunned the city —

— Deborah Digges, distinguished poet and memoirist, dies at 59 —

— But there is one tombstone at which many women stop and genuflect. It is that of a 25-year-old woman called Nadia Anjuman, and the flowery Persian engraving describes her as a poet who risked her life to keep writing under the Taliban. —

— In an essay on the poet Muriel Rukeyser, Rich says that Rukeyser “was one of the great integrators, seeing the fragmentary world of modernity not as irretrievably broken, but in need of societal and emotional repair.” —

— The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 31 issue 8 —

— Hobble Creek Review …is fresh. —

— Poet’s Choice: Susan Wheeler —

— Poet’s Choice by David Hinton: ‘Drinking Wine’ by T’ao Ch’ien —

— Woeser, one of China’s best-known bloggers chronicling life in Tibet, has become an accidental hero to a generation of disenfranchised young Tibetans. —

— The poet-critic William Logan continues his assault on the state of American poetry in these essays. —

— Marshall is the author of “Meaning a Cloud” (Oberlin College Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Field poetry prize. With his wife, the poet Christine Deavel, Marshall owns and operates Seattle’s poetry–only bookstore, Open Books, in Wallingford. [mp3] —

— New collections by Stephen Dunn, J. D. McClatchy, Sharon Olds and Charles Wright. —

— … Poetry Through the Ages. —

— Why the Telegraph is wrong on women in IT —

— Betting closed on next poet laureate amid speculation that Carol Ann Duffy has been chosen —

ps I’ll be back when my finger splint things are ready. It will be a while.

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Poetry News For April 13, 2009

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Apr 132009

Poetry News For April 13, 2009 < -- not really haha.

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This is the best scanning job I can do right now. I don’t have PDF editing software. Just one of my cheapo past Ebay finds I’d like to share.

1961 American Poetry Now edited by Sylvia Plath PDF

If there are any copyright objections

I’ll take the PDF file down.

I saw the specialist in Baltimore last week. Baltimore has a good vibe – I like it. I was only there for a day. Met up with my brother, who took the train down, and had dinner, which was nice. I’m going to be an Aunt again.

My visit with the Dr. was very thorough – almost 4 hours – & I found out a lot of things I didn’t know. The whites of my eyes are turning blue-grey. (!) My elbows bend back the “wrong way” 20 degrees – she said that I score 6 out of 9 on the Beighton scale. I’m going to try to get some braces for my fingers. Scanning that chapbook took an embarrassingly long time haha.

I don’t know what the status of this site is. I hope to be back after a while. I’m still recovering from the trip last week. That is from a person who, when I attended college in my mid-20′s, worked 3 part-time jobs and went to school full-time etc etc. I’m not used to this new mode. Frustrating, grrrr! I made Easter dinner for me and Darryl and then slept for 6 hours. Good thing we never had kids!

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