Justice is a timely plea for us to desist from political bickering and see if we can have a sensible discussion about what sort of society we really want to live in." (Jonathan Ree, The Observer (London)) "Every once in a while, a book comes along of such grace, power, and wit that it enthralls us with a yearning to know what justice is. When the question of infidelity arises, the speaker is more concerned with being faithful to herself than to her lover(s). There is always light. Watching the lives and movements of birds, stars, and tigers, the poem's speaker sees reasons for faith in God woven all through the rhythms of nature. Part 1, A California Girl, concerns her self-projection as a daughter of the Golden State, while later parts elaborate and complicate Wakoskis shifting personae. I just needed a 'legitimate' reason. And hot showers, oh lovely, lovely hot showers. There are two parts of the speaker, the part that searches for the warmth of the smudge pot and the part of me that takes your hand confidently. That is, the speaker both believes that she has the warmth and fears that she lacks it. If not this breath, this sitting here. Tags: American Literature, Analysis of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Beat Generation, Bibliography of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Character Study of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Criticism of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Diane Wakoski, Diane Wakoski's Poems, Essays of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Literary Criticism, Notes of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Plot of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Poetry, Simple Analysis of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Study Guides of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Summary of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Synopsis of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Themes of Diane Wakoskis Poems. The book, Four Young Lady Poets, was published in 1962 and published by Amiri Baraka and Hettie Joness Totem Press. 3 Discovering That I Am Enough. Diane Wakoski, (born August 3, 1937, Whittier, California, U.S.), American poet known for her personal verses that examine loss, pain, and sexual desire and that frequently reproduce incidents and fantasies from her own turbulent life. She brilliantly highlights the multiple faces of justice and the way it is served to people. We've collected a few powerful poems about justice, and each one will make you see things in a new light and may even inspire you to take action. The speaker, who expresses her condition in images of isolation and entrapment, is fascinated with aggressive male roles, embodied in the motorcyclist. We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part V: On Skeleton and Skeletonists. She mourns her brother, dead by his own hand, because of the justice that balances the beauty in the world. Since beauty is mentioned in the last line of the poem, the final mood is one of acceptance and affirmation. This is ironic, of course, because sexist critics have portrayed her negatively. A cup of tea. That book was Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch and it changed my life; I opened it and found myself. Winter in Vermont. This poem was written after I had read an article in the NEW YORK TIMES called "George Washington the Home Gardener," (thus, "Sestina from the Home Gardener") and because I had started writing . The new dawn balloons as we free it. Readers Digest. Womens Review of Books 18, no. Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. The title poem, dedicated to her motorcycle betrayer, the mechanic of Smudging, reiterates past injustices and betrayals, but the speaker is more assured than vengeful. Enough is also an adjective . Isis, the Queen of the Night speaker, figures prominently in The Magellanic Clouds. In fact, quite a few of the poems in the book carry some kind of introduction, with the last section especially filled with them. it is enough to know that. Leary, Paris. In this volume, she introduces the image of the lost lover, thereby creating her own personal mythology. When she speaks of Father who makes me know all men will leave me/ if I love them, she implies that all her relationships are fated reenactments of childhood love betrayed. Indeed, this notion of parts is robust enough to make one wonder why reason, spirit, and appetite are parts at all, as opposed to three independent subjects. Whole in your essence. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. (Possession becomes the focus for the ongoing thirteen parts of Greed.) 10 Greatest Poems about Death: A Grim Reader. Look closely at the forsythia, just two days ago Justice Is Reason Enough is a poem indebted to Yeats: the great form and its beating wings suggests Leda and the Swan. The form in this poem, however, is that of her apocryphal twin brother, David, with whom she commits incest. Inside the Blood Factory also introduces another of Wakoskis recurring images, the moon, developed more extensively later in The Moon Has a Complicated Geography and The Magellanic Clouds. The mythology is, in turn, used to develop her themes: loss and acceptance, ugliness and beauty, loss of identity and the development of self. Wakoski has long been clear that the twin brother she refers to in the poem is imaginary, a character, a stand-in for how we wrestle with ourselves. Long 3 Place 3 Previous 2 Open 2 Write 2 Moment 2 Wait 2 Slave 2 Reason 2 Broken 2 Poetic Justice . The poem itself may be the key in the locked door that is either an entrance or an exitat the end of the poem, Entrance./ Exit./ The lips suggests a sexual and poetic act. It is not Maxfields suicide that disturbs the speaker; she is concerned with his falling apart, the antithesis of his well-organized composing. A fistful of poems about fatherhood by classic and contemporary poets. The Egyptian goddess-creator, who is simultaneously mother and virgin, appears as the symbolic object of male fear: the veiled woman, Isis mother, whom they fear to be greater than all else. Men prefer the surface, whether it be a womans body or the eagle ice sculpture that melts in the punch bowl at a cocktail party; men fear what lies beneath the surfacethe woman, the animain their nature. Only if we are brave enough to be it.". Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women. When I read interviews shes given about feminism, about the male authority in her work, about her unwillingness to do the work of self-reflection (on why she uses the masculine pronoun: Ive said this in public a million times: grammar is grammar. Los Angeles Review of Books 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste 1521 Los Angeles, CA 90028, GENERAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]MEMBERSHIP INQUIRIES [emailprotected]EDITORIAL INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PRESS INQUIRIES [emailprotected]ADVERTISING INQUIRIES [emailprotected]PURCHASE INQUIRIES [emailprotected]. Norman Martien explained in Partisan Review that the George Washington myths serve to express the failure of a womans relations to her men, but the myths also give her a means of talking about it. The wealth of worth embodied in. Wakoski believes that once a poet has something to say, he or she finds the appropriate form in which to express this content. Wakoskis poems focus on intensely personal experiences while at the same time inventing and incorporating personae from mythology and archetype; they often rely on digressions, on tangential wanderings through imagery and fantasy, to present ideas and themes. Her even balance claim; Unawed, unbribed, through good or ill, Make rectitude your aim. I dont feel Im being slighted as a woman because instead of saying he or she I say he ), she comes off more cantankerous and contrary than thoughtfully feminist or anti-feminist. Longtime readers of Wakoski will recognize all the residents of her myth the Motorcycle Betrayer, George Washington, and now, in Bay of Angels, The Shadow Boy (more on him later). Photo by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash. In Ode to a Lebanese Crock of Olives the speaker again refers to the body she regards as physically unattractive, but she accepts her failed beach girl status and stacks the deck metaphorically in favor of abundance (the richness of burgundy,/ dark brown gravies) over the bland (their tan fashionable body). But I dont disclose my secrets easily.. And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew. Often equating militancy and fatherhood and suggesting that it is the military that elicits American admiration, the speaker abruptly begins a digression about her father; yet the lengthy digression actually develops the father motif of the first verse-paragraph and examines the influence he has had on her life. Sometimes the structural layers and inventions are so thick, it is difficult to find our way into the emotional truth of the matter. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, and you proved everyone right. Yes, she should be more well known, and yes, her influence is perhaps not credited nearly enough, but shes still here. Classic and contemporary poems of gratitude to send when youre feeling thankful. She earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with poets such as Thom Gunn and Josephine Miles. The fourth woman in the chapbook is Diane Wakoski, who has managed, despite the odds, and despite the climate, to endure. Here for a reason. Enough. Even ahead of her classic Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch there are paragraphs of explanation before the poem can begin. I Wish You Enough (I Wish You Enough Poem) At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Sometimes, the title of a poem is enough. Lynn Melnicks first collection of poetry. We keep the wall between us as we go. American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. [1965] Justice is Reason Enough, Poem to the Man on My Fire Escape, Coins and Coffins Under My Bed, Apparitions are Not Singular Occurrences, Six of Cups, The Empress; pp. This is the first stanza and it continues without misstep for eighty lines. "They say it was such afunny way to kill a man, rigging it all up like that.". After mentioning her father and her relatives, who have achieved sound measure/ of love (sound measure suggests substance but also a prosaic doling out of love), she turns to her mother, who threatens her with a long rifle that becomes a fishing pole with hooks that ensnare her. Wakoski is the author of over 60 published collections of poetry and prose. For much of her career she published with famed underground press Black Sparrow Press; however, her most recent collections of poetry have been published by Anhinga Press. Saying that "Justice seems to have many . When the first poem, George Washington and the Loss of His Teeth, begins with the image of Georges (Wakoski refers irreverently to George throughout the poems) false teeth, Wakoski wittily and facetiously undercuts the historical image of male leadership in the United States. Sure, many might bristle at Wakoskis refusal to classify herself as this or that on traditional terms, but, for me, discovering her work with no history or academy to bring to it, work which didnt hide rage or sexuality, which dared to have a female speaker call herself ugly, which was unafraid to call out its longing well, Wakoski is a feminist hero of mine, whether or not shed care for the term or the sentiment. Life slows down. Arizona Poetry reflects the multi-cultural heritage of the Southwestern section of North America. One of the first Wakoski poems I ever read was Justice is Reason Enough, a poem, I learned in the intro of The Diamond Dog, that she first wrote in Thom Gunns undergraduate class! Clever enough. The last poem in the volume, A Poem for My Thirty-second Birthday, provides a capsule summary of the speakers images, themes, and relationships. And, frankly, invisibility is just the harsh reality of women in the canon. Women seem to fall away more than men have done. Ranked poetry on Enough, by famous & modern poets. She is constantly inventive, rarely predictable, and, in a way that somehow seems healthy and unthreatening, enormously ambitious. Her honors include a Fulbright fellowship, a Michigan Arts Foundation award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. it makes me want to scream and shout and let this beast of confusion out. She states that the poem must organically come out of the writers life, that all poems are letters, so personal in fact that she has been considered, though she rejects the term, a confessional poet. "We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.". -Symbols are important in a poem because the readers give the meaning they will understand and their imagination and also those words that hard to understand. JUSTICE IS REASON ENOUGH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poet's Biography First Line: He, who was once my brother, is dead by his own hand Last Line: Reason enough for anything ugly. Justice Langston Hughes - 1901-1967 That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes This poem is in the public domain. I have given you my youth and you took advantage of my un-experienced heart and played with my emotions. Having thought her father handsome and having wondered why he left her, she is left with the idea of a Prince Charming at once desirable and unattainable. Temperature about to fall. The Magellanic Clouds looks back at earlier volumes in its reworking of George Washington and the moon figures, but it also looks ahead to the motorcycle betrayal figure and the King of Spain. In this volume, the focus, as the title implies, is on physiological responses as these are expressed in visceral imagery. I discovered the poetry of Diane Wakoski when I was about 15, when I knew very little about poetry or its trends and schools. Like her mother, she must fear the husband who left her alone for the salty ocean (with associations of sterility and isolation); yet she, like the orange she metaphorically becomes, transcends this fear through visions and the roles she plays in her headthese make her the golden orange every prince will fight/ to own.. If only we're brave enough to be it.". List: A poem that is made up of a list of items or events. Heavy the load we undergo, And our own hands prepare, Suggested reading Joe Biden's old tropes for new times By Sam Leith This popular new series was made available March 31, 2017, drawing the attention of not only teenagers, but . Although his is a name she does not cherish because he early abandoned her, he has provided her with military,/ militant origins, made her a maverick, and caused her failed relationships. In one of her pre-poem notes, Wakoski relates that she is drawn to Dickmans story, to his personal mythology, as she would call it, in particular because of Dickmans loss of his brother. The best introduction to Wakoskis arther themes and methodsis The Butchers Apron: New and Selected Poems, Including Greed: Part 14, published in 2000. I am smart enough. -Symbols are important in the life . Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch is a bit of a departure from Wakoskis earlier poetry, although it is consistent in mythology and themes with the rest of her work. Suddenly poetry was also for me, was something a woman could do, and do with astonishing honesty. Although she has been occasionally mischaracterized as a confessional poet, she is not confessing; she has created a cast of characters that represent things she might confess. In Bay of Angels, we find the same sprawling forms, wild lines of thought, exquisite control and focus. "And you think this is reason enough to barge into offices that are closed for lunch?". Wakoski poses a resolution, "Justice is / reason enough for anything ugly. Summer rain. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980. Unswayed by prejudice, thy mind. These poems are exhilarating. The seventy-six poems gathered in A Donald Justice Reader constitute an encyclopedia of literary form and style. Why is she not required on womens studies reading lists, if not in the poetry curriculum? By Rudyard Kipling. But the Republic proceeds as though every embodied human being has just one soul that comprises three parts. It is time to just let go people judge, people hold back. The Diamond Dog of the title is based on a nightmare Wakoski experienced as child, the memory of which follows her throughout her life and through the book. There is also the issue of male dominance in Wakoskis worldview and her writing, which she has quite often attributed to the spotty presence, and then disappearance, of her father when she was a child. Rothenberg described Wakoski in the early 1960s: Newly arrived in New York Wakoski was the first poet from the outside to truly join us, bringing with her an extraordinarily developed sense & practice of a poetry of the everyday that, in Robert Duncans words, might be fantastic life. It was in this way, as I later wrote of her, that her work, while striking a note of the autobiographicaleven to some ears (but not hers) the confessionalasserts the truth of an imaginal life that moves (at several of its remarkable [cosmological] peaks) toward what Keats spoke of as soul-making or world-making & Wallace Stevens as a supreme fiction.. Well, because she has resisted being folded into that movement. I try to look for inspiration in friends, God, whatever i can. Recently rereading much of Diane Wakoskis long career, I was impressed how very much the poet is who she always is. Like a Metaphysical poet, Wakoski suggests that the universe can be coalesced into their bodies (our earlobes and eyelids) as they hold live coals/ of commitment,/ of purpose,/ of love. This positive image, however, is undercut by the final image, the power of fish/ living in strange waters, which implies that such a union may be possible only in a different world. And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave. What, then, besides not aligning herself with the feminist or any movement, has kept her out of the 20th century canon? Read this poem. (2) Print Enough Is Enough Ilona M. Blake more by Ilona M. Blake Published by Family Friend Poems June 2019 with permission of the author. Here, too, there is less emphasis on the masculine sun imagery, though it appears, and more of a celebration of the moon imagery. There is simply no predicting or influencing how your poem will be read, and it is restrictive to expect a reader to interpret your words exactly as you would wish. I will not hesitate--I need justice. After finishing her BA, Wakoski moved to New York City, where Hawks Well Press, the press founded by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg and David Antin, published her first poetry collection, Coins and Coffins (1962). Ultimately, the speaker is plagued with another duality: She desires what has persistently destroyed her. Thus, her arrangement of older and newer poems is made in the service of a mythic map of her inner terrain. Today was a good day. Two of Wakoskis favorite poems, The Story of Richard Maxfield and Driving Gloves, which are included in this volume, involve people she resembles, one a dead composer and artist and one a Greek scholar with a failed father, but the poems conclude with affirmations about the future. Justice Quotes in Trifles. Many of these poems celebrate youth and celebrate vices, smoking, men. Emerald Ice received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She loves her lover but wants to be alone, desires intimacy (wants to be in your wrist, a pulse) but does not want to be in your house, a possession. WE LCOME TO ARIZONA POET BOB ATKINSON'S BLOG of Arizona Poetry. These notes have long seemed controlling to me, as well as unnecessary. 1953 The title poem of Theodore roethke's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Waking, Poems 1933-1953 1953 , is a short, haunting meditation on living and . Diane Wakoski: A Descriptive Bibliography. Her many collections of poetry include series stretching across multiple books, such as The Archeology of Books and Movies, whose titles include Medea the Sorceress (1991), Jason the Sailor (1993), The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), and Argonaut Rose (1998). Whether it's Fathers Day or any time of year, here are poems about all types of dads. Trifles Quotes. (If you disagree, look at the poem) What society infers Why society is wrong - How you look (physically) doesn't determine who you are - Something artificial you apply to your face doesn't make you any different - Your clothes are your choice - Inappropriate and dirty acts won't get you anywhere but in trouble In The Father of My Country, Wakoski demonstrates both the extraordinary versatility of the George Washington figure and the way repetition, music, and digression provide structure. The poem mocks the way justice is accomplished in the world. I gave you all the trust, but you misused it. 1.Why are symbols important in a poem? The catalog then switches to the speakers physical liabilities, ones that render her unbeautiful and unloved; with the mask of a falcon, she has roamed the earth and observed the universal effect that beauty has on men. She refers to real people and to real events in her life in detail that some critics find too personal as she works through a problem: A poem is a way of solving a problem. For Wakoski, writing a poem is almost therapeutic; it is talking the problem out, not to a counselor or even to the reader, but to herself. To champion or deny; 28 cm. There is similar progression in the Astronomer Poems of the volume. Without any cacophony, this poem is extremely idyllic and, though long, is not a litany to the eye. Pope Pius XI 1 Copy Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. Be true to right: let justice still. In Peter Schjeldahls New York Times Book Review review of her poetry in the 1970s, he refers to her anti-male rage and a pervasive unpleasantness, the kind of which might lend a male poet some mystique and power but in a woman could be seen as unseemly: One can only conclude that a number of people are angry enough at life to enjoy the sentimental and desolating resentment with which she writes about it. This is not just mid-century sexism; reading through her biography on the Poetry Foundations website, the Peter Schjeldahl review is quoted as if this anti-male rage which, according to the website is difficult to appreciate is a real thing and not a misogynist construct. The resolution of the poem for the speaker is the movement from emotional concerns to intellectual ones, a movement reflected in the poetry-music analogy developed in part 13. They may be right, but I love it here. Below you will find the important quotes in Trifles related to the theme of Justice. Like a happy child on that shining afternoon/ in the palmtree sunset her mothers trunk yielding treasures,/ I cry and/ cry,/ Father,/ Father,/ Father,/ have you really come home?. The world needs justice, We don't need malice. Print length 560 pages Language English Publisher Harper Perennial Publication date August 4, 1993 Dimensions 6.13 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches ISBN-10 0060965177 That's why it starts off with In just balloon man, or Injust balloon man. An Interview with Diane Wakoski. Interview by Deborah Gillespie. The missing lover is also the central figure of Discrepancies and Apparitions, which contains Follow That Stagecoach, a poem that Wakoski regards as one of her best and most representative. Matt 0. Truth teller, I am, she writes. . To lace it around/ me like weaving cloth. Below zero. Despite the opening curse, God damn it, and her acknowledgment that his leaving made her as miserable/ as an earthworm with no earth, she not only has crawled out of the ground, resurrecting herself, but also has learned to sing new songs, to write new poems. There has been a recent spotlight on the young adult fiction book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. century naval uniform and concludes with a chant, with repetitions and parallels, that expresses both her happiness and her uncertainty: And I say the name to chant it. Which isnt to say she grows dull or less interesting with time, but shes not bending with trend. I Am Enough. In a literary scene not unlike the Southern California of Wakoskis youth, a scene that tends to fade out its aging starlets, Wakoski earns a read, and another. In the course of the poem, she associates a mechanic with a Doberman that bites, and then she becomes, in her anger, the Doberman as she seeks revenge on a lover who makes her happy while he destroys her with possessive eyes that penetrate the fences she has erected. She said, "Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. In Cognac in France // --for the Motorcycle Betrayer she writes: Tonight, no one can seemy young arms, like cobweb dustedgrape skins, Monets water lilies, branchinginto their bracelets,toasting you,their shadow insidemy matronly pebbled limbs. The earth, warmed in the afternoons begins to smell of spring. Clearly, then, personal mythology has been an indispensible and effective tool for Wakoski. up and up into space. 10 Greatest Novels Ever Written. In her intro to The Diamond Dog, Wakoski reveals some factual heartbreak from her youth that she could not speak of for years, including an unwanted pregnancy as a teenager, which ended with her giving her baby up for adoption. David, my brother always missing, looms as large now as he did decades ago. But, no mind, because Wakoski has always stuck hard to her own beliefs and constructions and continues to write a poetry dazzlingly and maddeningly her own, regardless of what history and fashion wants to do with her, because history and fashion will do what it will. "Just enough" are the virtues that can't turn back the clock to a given day, more hallow with all the words; Confusing the desires of a future free from denial in every possible way. There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'. The series investigated the mythology of modern America through movies and popular culture, personal history, geography, and a series of textual allusions including to Frank Baums Wizard of Oz. About a week after I finished my third read-through of Bay of Angels, a friend gave me a chapbook he found at a used bookstore in Manhattan. Here it is, courtesy, Lynette. As in the above quote, much of the first section of Bay of Angels focuses on movies and pop culture and, because these poems hold less music than those in the later sections, how much a reader enjoys these is going to be dependent on how much s/he enjoys pop culture. Of Wakoskis many volumes of poetry, The Magellanic Clouds is perhaps the most violent as the speaker plumbs the depth of her pain. / And it doesnt matter, to the harsh realities of a woman growing older in our youth-obsessed culture, Bay of Angels follows the clear line that runs from the poets earliest books forward. To begin with, she has often been in the thrall of the male figure she cites her influences as male poets almost exclusively: Stevens, Williams, Koch, and OHara among many others. Able enough . I wish it didn't hurt as much as it does, but no matter What i do, i still feel the constant pain, in my heart. In Bay of Angels, Diane Wakoskis 23rd and most recent collection of poems, she continues with her career-long tropes and obsessions: love and betrayal, strong male figures and absent male figures, beauty and its shame-faced opposite. 10. And now, in her newest book, we have the poet Matthew Dickman, to whom the whole final section of Bay of Angels is written for and inspired by. Lauter, Estella. Jefferson, N.C.: Mc- Farland, 1987. On her blog Wakoski has written of her lifetime meander to find a new measure through word patterning, through repetition, including chant and incantation, and through creating personal mythologies that function using trope that leads to revelation. And in her work The Blue Swan: An Essay on Music in Poetry Wakoski summed up the process of poetry writing: first comes the story. The world has had enough, Amid references to old arms and aching knees, to the feeling that No one listens to me. "When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. In The George Washington Poems, dedicated to her father and her husband, Wakoski continues to debunk the American hero, this time taking on the father of my country (a title that is given to one of the poems), the patriarchal political and militaristic establishment. Anyone who has a Netflix account or basically any connection to teenage girls knows that this buzz directly comes from the newly released Netflix series that is an adaption of the book. October, 1918. the maintenance or administration of what is just by law, as by judicial or other proceedings: a court of justice. In Sun Gods Have Sun Spots, she not only suggests male-sun blemishes but also affirms her own divinity in a clever role reversal: I am/ also a ruler of the sun.While the sun has an angry face, the speaker in The Mirror of a Day Chiming Marigold still yearns for the poet or astronomer to study my moon. Wakoski thus at least tentatively resolves two earlier themes, but she continues to develop the King of Spain figure, to refer to the rings of Saturn, to include some Buddha poems and some prose fables, and to use chants as a means of conveying meaning and music. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, Wakoski understands the lure of the image. Discussing her poetry and American poetry for the Poetry Society of America, Wakoski asserted, American poetry is always about defining oneself individually, claiming ones right to be different and often to break taboos. 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