alice notley the prophet

NOTLEY, Alice. Watch Video Here. Alice Notley wanders through a Paris cemetery and speaks to her dead father about her life in France, where she has lived since 1992. She was in my workshop. I never understand what to do or how to do it, I understand that I 36AN: Like dolmensyes, something like that. In an important essay titled The Poetics of Disobedience, Notley says this shift began with her book The Descent of Alette (1992). . My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). Ones not overshadowed like in forests elsewhere, but its particularly harsh, and hot: the Mojave goes up to 120-125 [Fahrenheit], sometimes. In a swerve from the feminine epic, For the Ride seems to want to speak from a place outside of gender, another shrugging-off of what readers have come to expect from Notley. Its small and a bit fragile. I thought that that printing added something, though: I enjoyed turning the book to read the poem. Its filthy; I dont remember how I got that torn princess; but that bird was in a book; you see that phrase there marks what I was barred from: so the thing to see is that Im in jail and they wont let me into the Htel des Grands Hommes. Which is the Panthon. French poetry was aimless, became philosophical, though now there are some younger poets that are starting to put the concrete back in, but slowly; I discussed it with French poets a few years ago, who confirmed for me that French poetry became abstract out of trauma from World War II, the occupation, and everything, authors being too traumatized to speak concretely. New York: Scarlet Editions, 1992. The Indians said: No, we wont do it, but we will send people to teach them to you. The tribes then would send the people to Prescott, and every year they would teach these businessmen dances. Humbleflannel skeleton. Do you remember when he wrote the second The Circus? , Wesleyan University Press, 2006 (p.292-293), reproduced with permission of the author. DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? At the same moment, at Saint Marks, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, and I taught poetry workshops. I wonder about it later, but actually it always seems like it is justified: I think the people that I mentioned in. Notleys recent work includes From the Beginning (2004), Alma, or the Dead Women (2006), Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, In the Pines (2007), Culture of One (2011), Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), Benediction (2015), and Certain Magical Acts (2016). I grew up among Native Americans. Photographer unknown, Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance, c. 1945, courtesy of the Alice Notley, re-photographed by Daesong Kim. I was influenced by Koch, particularly by the period starting with the second The Circus (1971). But every time he quoted somebody he misquoted him or her without even knowing it, so he always made the texture his own. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. There were four kids, including a couple still at home. , 1998. New York: Penguin, 1996. NOTLEY, Alice. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. Flowery mantle. Homeric sacrifice? noise of darkness fear of, darkness now mantle of innocence King of his death now Home, Ive come home He said, Ive come home They were sacrificed for, nothing, for distant instants of thought All for your thinking, Illustration courtesy of Sophie Herxheimer, The Goddess Who Created This Passing World. 109DR: I wouldnt be able to take the journey if I couldnt hear the poem.. Other possible issues: goofy works, "description," dreams (the new gen), school of Susie Timmons, rejuvenation of the "found work," the "line," how to be like Elinor [Nauen] and Maggie [Dubris], how to cultivate inventiveness, strategies for dry spell, dictionaries, diaries, little plays, calligrams, tiles, left-hand margins, how to get great theories and general self-improvement. DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. AN: I do not expect to be well known in the universities because that context tends to be too academic, and generally French poetry is in a bad place. The stream of shattered consciousness is occasionally punctuated by shaped picture-poems, variously representing a ship, a face, a winged coyote. After the workshop ended, Notley teamed up with students to print copies of their works on the mimeograph machine in the St. Mark's basement. The poet Heather Christles book, which is built of fragments of varying lengths, examines the science, sociology, and history of weeping. Having published continuously for over 50 years, Notley is one of the most important and celebrated American poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Alice. New York: Knopf, 1998. The text is visually striking with quotation marks surrounding each poetic foot, intended to slow the reader down and indicate the pace at which the book is to be read. She wound up in a nursing home, the life and soul of the nursing home: a great Irish lady. DR: I think he interrupts the thought, but the thought he interrupts keeps going. 80AN: Probably, I wouldnt dance, but Anne might. 83DR: Yes, right, on one level, shall we say? At the moment, it feels like theres not much going on there; because its all going on at the surface actually. and Laurence B. HOLLAND. You and Ted published it in your review, Chicago (1974). In the serious, reflective poem, Your Dailiness (1971), you mention finally understanding Willem de Koonings painting. Line Breaks in America: the Odds and Ends of Poetry, Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots, Conjunctions of the Literary and the Philosophical in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American Writing, Creating the Child Audience: Media and the Invention of Modern American Childhood, Les mots pour le dire. Notley borrows images and inspirations from popular cultural (Muhammed Ali and Marlon Brando in 30thBirthday and comic books in The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books), as well as the more serious literary world. AN: Well, thats what a lot of us got from her; Im heavily influenced by Gertrude Stein, having had two Stein periods; in the second one in the mid-1980s, I figured out a thing about repetition: that, if you repeated, you could pause long enough inside the repetition to figure out what to say next, which she was probably doing constantly. Oakland: O Books, 1995. They were the CDs that my son made and sent me; there are a lot of miss-hearings of Bob Dylan songs, as well as just a lot of folk songs that I already knew, in that work. 67My poem The Prophet (1981) is based on his poem Some General Instructions (1971). Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1981. Which gives you bits of advice and instructions. Its more like a pause between metrical feet. Notley has stayed very involved in the preservation of both Berrigan and Oliver's works, having edited and written introductions for a number of their books and she continues to be a prolific and powerful force in contemporary poetry, winning the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2007 and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2015. 88AN: Yes, and that is effectively what the Aeneid, which is certainly a splendid and beautiful poem, does. I gave a talk on his poetry last month, in New York, which I wrote during the cold snap, when it was too cold to go out for three days. This Kind of Paradise. Parts of a Wedding. A close relationship with the poet Anselm Hollo, who was teaching at the program at that time, led to Notley leaving Iowa City for Morocco in 1968. Eileen was in it, as was Bob Holman. Notleys ceaseless productivity hints at a method counter to the heavy emphasis on, and even fetishization of, craft that forms the cornerstone of poetrys increasing professionalization. I think I know how to do things with my voice that are entirely musical. The Man in the Long Black Coat, (1989) by Bob Dylan influenced the sound of the first two parts, which I wrote last. AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. Im working on arcane things at the moment which I find hard to talk about. However, when you dream you get more, particularly images, which I dont have enough of right now. I was her teacher, though Im not much older than she is, about four years older. NOTLEY, Alice. Why? AroarA. doing here? I just sat down and replied, Im a widow; Ive got two children; I know its been a year and a half since my husband died; Im trying to stay at home as much as I can and I have a part-time job (I was working for Allen Ginsberg at the time). Ive always had trouble getting materials here. I always seem to be erasing and starting over, rather than picking up where I left off, even if I wind up taking up the same themes. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. Alice Notley: It's an artifact and it's kind of torn up, called "lost lace." It's supposed to look like it . AN: I dont remember that poem, Syringa, but John tends to pick things out: he used to keep lists of his titles and then he would decide to write the poem of that title. Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Instead of second-guessing their style, we could talk about the way they handled the tasks. It also marks a shift in Notleys poetics away from the freewheeling chattiness of the New York School and toward something more visionary, historical, and grandly narrative. Then generations of people had to have to deal with the bad behavior and figure out how to talk about it. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Over the course of her career, Alice Notley has achieved something astounding: each of her nearly 30 books is different from the last one yet unmistakably hers. I just sat in here and wrote about Allen and the international aspect of his work. In that sad, beautiful book, theres so much irony, whereas some literary critics take everything at face value. But Notley, never one to be pinned down, has continued to push poetrys formal constraints, and this pursuit has led her far away from portraits of domestic life. damn whether they eat or not. At a certain point I wrote them down every morning; sometimes I do it more than others. Your brain becomes taffy. I. One of the lines in that particular poem is actually straight from Dylan, which I finally just say: I know no one can sing the blues like blind Willie McTell. Id been quoting from the song all the way through in the whole poem. [4] Notley's second book, Phoebe Light, was published in 1973 by Bill Berkson's Bolinas-based press Big Sky.[5]. The poetry community in Bolinas was particularly strong at the time, withJoanne Kyger,Philip Whalen,Bill Berkson,Robert Creeley, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins all among its residents. They are a grappling with it as a kind of a design problem. When I was writing such pieces and reading them they changed a lot; but it was about trying to get how the mind works, which meant I was writing generally as fast as I could while still keeping self-control, which is why I allowed all these part-words to come in. DR: What do you think of Gertrude Stein and of the kind of permutations she does: almost like rolling things around in your mouth? The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. Alice Notley has become one of Americas greatest living poets. New York: Scribner Poetry, 2001, p.120-124. 89DR: Right, thats a strong, colonizing streak in Western culture. One knows ithere, not chains,posh garlands. Orpheus is a stand-in for poetry. Its from Homer. 214, fall 2015, p.34-121. 22DR: Like Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading at Saint Marks church their collaborative poem, Memorial Day (May 6, 1971), that episode of Public Access Television, June 16, 1977, where you and Eileen Myles read together must count among the great New York School moments still on record. I would like some help. Whereupon, she just totally melted. 79DR: Where leftover misery goes Can a poem be like a dance? 63DR: Your attitude towards staleness in the academic world, your sensitivity towards these questions of history and politics, indeed your measure and courage for speaking out reminds me of one first-generation New York School poet in particular, Kenneth Koch. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. As in her feminist epic The Descent of Alette, the quotation marks here both interrupt and sustain. I had this education, so I could have been doing something else but did not want to, was animated by a desire to write poetry, which is truly valuable: I was writing peoples culture for the future. nature. Left-wing Radicalism in the United States: A Foreign Creed? I had just been in the States. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. That gives you a sense of the sound. The books were published under the imprint Unimproved Editions and Notley made cover art for the majority of the titles. 38AN: Would you like to see the real collage? DR: In your work, theres something in the interstices between thoughts thats both intriguing and active. There was a tribe in my home town, the Mojaves. Instead, she gravitated increasingly toward archetype and mytha search for primordial language bubbling under the surface. A similar style is found in other poems from that era, including I the People. What does it mean to be one of millions that comprise a nation? Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. How do we make sense of ourselves in relation to huge abstract institutions such as democracy, the state, and marriage? She delves into a range of topics in a single poem, such as "The Prophet", she converses about toilets, different countries, and the idea of marriage, and somehow she's able to bring all of these farfetched ideas together. The Art of Poetry: John Ashbery. Ed. Its not around me much now. I like that it's a manuscript and not a book. [10] Some of Notley's most famous engagements with the poetry community while in NYC were her workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, which were attended by dozens of young poets including Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Steve Carey, and Susie Timmons. About two-thirds of the way through the book theres a dream that has to do with a poet that has written a poem called disobedience: the poet was Kenneth in the dream, but, such is dream logic, it was really me. DR: In that book, the heroine is a true medium who can look at someones face and know things, and at the end she is taken off to the asylum; Andr Breton then rails for two pages about how misguided asylums are, which makes your collage seem to be broaching the question of clairvoyance in terms of surrealistic, poetic culture. Her children, Anselm Berrigan and Edmond Berrigan are both New York Poets of a younger generation. Perhaps the greatest OHara disciple in this sense is the poet Alice Notley, who, in the course of forty-plus years and forty-plus books, has repeatedly cited OHara as an influence while following her own unconventional path. After the war, that tradition was exhausted. The incentives to engage in selfish, destructive action are as strong as they always have been. After earning her BA from Barnard College and MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, Notley traveled extensively around the U.S. and abroad. , Memoir/Antimemoir; Summer 2000, p. 147-151. I think all poets do that; its also something out of the tradition of folk music. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. Where Leftover Misery Goes. Robert Haas, Guest Editor. The poem is addressed, at least in part, to Berrigan, who died in 1983, and the speaker longs to make sense of a country without him in it. Chicago European Edition #3. He spent two years in India, which changed everything about him. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 911-1772. These places are continuously operating as presences in your poetry, particularly the Needles of your youth, in California, the Lower Manhattan in the heyday of New York School Poetry, and the Paris of today. (1954): that book is fantastic; he caught the new line, which he refers to in one of his letters. I knew him in New York, where I saw him from time to time; but after I moved here, he sought me out. There are passing moments that neednt be dwelled upon, but if youre going to go to war against a couple of countries, I think you merit an accusation of doing just that. MYLES, Eileen. Teds father worked for the Tip-Top Bread factory and died when he was fifty of a heart attack, after being laid off due to mechanization. Poems, articles, podcasts, and blog posts that explore womens history and womens rights. They bring to mind the French tradition of Guillaume Apollinaires Calligrams (Notley has lived in Paris since the nineties), and their playfulness brings some relief to the poems voyaging. Individual Time. Were you and he on the same wavelength politically? But it goes Of asphodel, that greeny flower I come my sweet to sing. Its a long line that can take in short lines, which I did in Alette. Everyone who went there was either black or Hispanic. ASHBERY, John. 29AN: He has complete syntactical thoughts, then he interrupts things at the conjunction. Also in my poem Disobedience (2001), I got the title in a dream about him. Cherokee. Alma, or The Dead Women. . One group of studentsDarlene Pearlstein, Peter Kostakis, and Richard Friedmanstarted a small poetry press, The Yellow Press, which would go on to publish two books by Notley, one book by Berrigan, and give out a yearly Ted Berrigan Prizeoverseen in part by Notleyfor a first book (though the press would cease publishing two years in). AN: Virgil was just this poet and he had to contend with Augustus Caesar. ASHBERY, John. I had it for a long time and it started to break. To quote: If its a spiritual offense does it as wrongdoing take place more in more in the second leftover/ as a leftover and is the significance of the double now that I might be might the /one who offends Have you heard it read? Entitled The Speak Angel Series, her latest collection of new material is forthcoming from . [citation needed]. I was wondering about your thoughts on Native Americans. 8DR: Such natural presences are important. 49DR: In that book, the heroine is a true medium who can look at someones face and know things, and at the end she is taken off to the asylum; Andr Breton then rails for two pages about how misguided asylums are, which makes your collage seem to be broaching the question of clairvoyance in terms of surrealistic, poetic culture. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Kilkenny. He would fly to Paris, find me, and we would have dinner; also, he had a group of Paris friends. And they participated, when they lived in Prescott, AZ, in an organization which did Native American Dances every year, called The Smoki, which my father was in, and which had been instituted by the businessmen in Prescott in the 1930s. Reason and Other Women. In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Its deliberate, in order to find something out. You and Ted published it in your review, AN: I started to be quite influenced by him at that point, and I think I influenced him in the writing of the book. All rights reserved. I went down there is simple, but it is rich. Whys not valid here. AN: He had no trust in his own ability to write things out, while he had faith in his ability to find things. OHaras insouciance has made his work popularan antidote to the high seriousness that poetry sometimes invokes to prove its worth. Would you like to come? I didnt go. For instance this collage that you put on the cover of Grave of Light. BAYM, Nina. Notley was born on November 8, 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. DR: Yes, those are full of imagery: evidently, they have all kinds of signification. 112AN: Ah, thats from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011), from the lady with antlers; that was strange: I fell asleep, dreamed of being a woman with antlers, then when I woke up I opened Le Monde, lo and behold, there was a picture of a model with antlers on her head and she was in a fashion show that day on the runwayshe was wearing antlers: it was a premonitory dream. 39DR: It seems to be an inspired collage. AN: That photo in the middle is me at age ten, I think. In the serious, reflective poem, Your Dailiness (1971), you mention finally understanding Willem de Koonings painting, Excavation, in a Chicago museum. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. White Phosphorus (1988) and Beginning with a Stain (1987). Scenes, tones, and pronouns shift without warning. BRETON, Andr. I thought that they were voices of dead French people, but they just came from everywhere; the voices came for that poem. Alice Notley, Live in Seattle, Portland, WA: Fonograf Editions (Octopus Books), 2019. [8] While in England, Notley would write her second sonnet cycle Great Interiors, Wines and Spirits of the World, which was originally published in a Notley-themed issue of the Chicago magazine Out There.[9]. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? Alice scared me. Philip Gourevitch. Tracing the fight for equality and womens rights through poetry. Is that right? DR: Apart from what happens during the performance, can writing poetry be like a dance? They wanted people to come and put the dances on, trying to help preserve them actually (there were about fifteen or twenty Indian Tribes in Arizona). Alice Notley - 1945-. Then I figured out how to write them, so they enter the text. 71AN: His werent poetry workshops: he taught undergraduate courses at Columbia. 116AN: I was there. Way too . Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan. Its from Homer. Notleys latest collection, For the Ride, a sprawling book-length poem, continues her trajectory into the unknown: anything happens here / in the magic of ones chaos. With its mess of divergent voices, picture-poems, and eccentric locutions, the result is baffling, beautiful, and always fascinatingly Notley. The sense of something escaping is well illustrated by your poem, Where Leftover Misery Goes, among others. 95For me, Williams mostly writes by the word. DR: Its also what Andr Breton mentions, in his book. In the middle section, which is in prose, there are three people: me, Medea, and Dido, my gripe being that she founded a city, Carthage. Though I didnt know I was being influenced by him again when I was doing. While Notley had written on motherhood prior to Songs, this book was her first to focus fully on the matter and is the first full-length book of a New York School-affiliated poet to take on the task of addressing poetry's sexism and the pressures and setbacks of motherhood in both personal and creative life. 94AN: I use all those units and I am aware of how they overlap. In New York, the poets you met were mostly all from somewhere else (except for a few of them like Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie). The character One is a kind of joke (Notley has always had an oddball sense of humor), but a joke that underscores the flimsiness of a stable idea of the self. Raw language is the final material we have; it is only by shaping and reshaping it that we can hope to rebuild our world. 72As for my teaching at the Saint Marks poetry project, I gave assignments from week to week and I made the students bring in those rather than the poems they wrote on their own, to hold discussion without my having to criticize them too much. 31AN: This poem was later published in Reason and Other Women (2010). DR: Its incredible because, I just re-read. Can we talk a little bit about the pop culture that figures in your work? The indeterminacy, one suspects, is the point. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. 1967; University of Iowa, Iowa City, M.F.A . Alice Notleys father doing the Hopi snake dance. Logic New York: TPR. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. NOTLEY, Alice. 113DR: Yes, that brings me back to what I was saying earlier about Andr Bretons Nadja who sees things before they happen next and is just carted off: the status of mediums becomes a metaphor for the status of poetry in society. I mean sometimes theres a lot of garbage but not usable garbage and so it takes me a long time to get anything made. AN: Peggy was great and, yes, Irish. 34AN: I met him once, Barnett Newman, right before he died. That was one of the first things Ted [Berrigan] told me about John: he kept a list of titles, like Civilization and Its Discontents, then he would decide, Ah, that would be a great title for a poem, and then later he would check his list and pull that title out. So, there were people from all different professions at the table, a few Americans and some artistic peoplebut not that many. Ill read a part of it: Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes in. deserve to be there, having their names engraved in that particular way. Batsford Ltd., 1945. 5Alice Notley is an extraordinary reader of her own work, which, in the last year, she has read in the U.S.A. (Providence, R.I., and Brooklyn, N.Y.), in the U.K. (Birmingham), and in France (The Pompidou Center, Paris). But only One is here.One is composed of words like one makes in beginning, chaotically.One makes them? NOTLEY, Alice. NOTLEY, Alice. New Addresses was influenced by my autobiographical book that almost won the Pulitzer Prize, Mystery of Small Houses (1998), getting him to dredge up his past, bravely. [1] She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in spring 1967 and left New York City that fall for the fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. AN: You dont have to breathe between them. DR: There was a pop song in the 1960s by the Three Dog Night. KOCH, Kenneth. That unusual, horizontal format was probably done to fit the long lines in. In the middle section, which is in prose, there are three people: me, Medea, and Dido, my gripe being that she founded a city, Carthage. 2023 Cond Nast. One day she took a lot of pills in a quasi-suicide attempt, when I was there, and then she just had to be rescued from this life of working a lot, not having enough, and too little company. In addition to poetry, Notley has written a book of criticism (Coming After, University of Michigan, 2005), a play ("Anne's White Glove"performed at the Eye & Ear Theater in 1985), a biography (Tell Me Again, Am Here, 1982), and she has edited three publications, Chicago, Scarlet, and Gare du Nord, the latter two co-edited with Douglas Oliver. I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. He gave everybody permission to be funny. She describes it as an immense act of rebellion against dominant social forces, against the fragmented forms of modern poetry, against the way a poem was supposed to look according to both past and contemporary practice. The narrator, Alette, finds herself in a feminist epic, on a subway, traveling deeper and deeper in the tunnels, into an underworld filled with caves and otherworldly characters. , Fifth edition, vol.2. Notleys language is, as ever, mystifying: in lines fluid yet clipped, interior yet discursive, she turns the idea of independence inside out to discover its seams. I havent changed much since I first began writing: That piece is from a postcard of a painting of Notre-Dame and evil spirits flying out of it. DR: Your attitude towards staleness in the academic world, your sensitivity towards these questions of history and politics, indeed your measure and courage for speaking out reminds me of one first-generation New York School poet in particular, Kenneth Koch. It bears a dedication to James Schuyler and Anne and Fairfield Porter, who were also residing together on Long Island at the time. Its more like a pause between metrical feet. AN: I dont think thats true of her poetry though, and I dont think thats what John did exactly. Ive always taken up that ambient context in my poems. She was married the British poet Douglas Oliver until his death in 2000. In 1992, Notley moved to Paris with her second husband, the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver (19372000), whom she met while living in England in 1974. 98DR: Frank OHara was strongly influenced by Williams, and you in turn take a lot from OHara. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. And theres a poem called This Kind of Paradise (1986) where the Hopis suddenly appear in a bureaucratic Food Stamps Office. Alice Notley: That's the future. I think its just all out there. Table of Contents I certainly wouldve used anything to keep from being sent. Chicago: C Press, 1971. 54AN: Complicated as it is, I can sketch it out: basically, everything is just too dense on the planet, which has been a decision made and a byproduct of technology. Notley has said that her decision to place the refrain at the beginning of the stanza rather than the end is what allowed her to continue writing the poem. Wholeness is not the same as unity. How, in your view, did humanity get itself in such a predicament? Alice Notleys poetry has evolved through many phases and experiments, as her output continues to be strong, and is increasingly studied academically. Sometimes I have in-between projects and that is a tough situation; because, I usually dont write as well then, indeed, I never quite know what to do at those moments. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. Especially in the way that lucid means shining and bright. 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