{"title":"the deciBels series 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe're proud to announce the release of the second set of 10 collections in the deciBels series, guest-edited by \u003c\/span\u003eMookie Katigbak-Lacuesta and Carlomar Arcangel Daoana. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501495050324_3181\"\u003eIn this series of deciBels, we highlight the voices of poets from the Philippine archipelago as well as from the neighboring region of Macau. The voices, as expected, are wonderfully polyphonic—from tones that capture the rich, formal cadence of rhyme and meter to improvisatory streaks of utterance that push against the limits of white space. Their similarity rests firmly on the lyric enterprise, that is, a belief in a singular voice provoking the page by a self embodied in the colors and textures of the world, as well as the motifs and icons of a culture. It is a voice inflected with wild tender longings: for connection, for clarity, for autonomy, for ambiguity.\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lawrence-bernabe-transitoria","title":"Lawrence Bernabe, Transitoria","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTransitoria\u003c\/em\u003e, Lawrence Bernabe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough his quick, bracing, and energetic lines\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003ecaptures reality perceived and\/or imagined, from a point of stillness to the vector of speed. He argues time only comes alive through the human element and attention, how it is essentially doubled by the \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003eone who moves through it,\u003c\/span\u003e” \u003cspan\u003ewhich transforms time from an impersonal force to a field of notations. For his poems are thunderbolt markers of experience, resisting closure, summary, the tyranny of introspection. This is the poetry of today: startled, quick-footed, registering the world at the moment of perception before it vanishes: the \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003eview from the window\u003c\/span\u003e” \u003cspan\u003ethat \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003e(s)hort circuits the mind.\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLawrence Bernabe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003elives in Quezon City and has published his poems in several independent presses and university journals, including High Chair Philippines and The Kritika Kultura Anthology of New Philippine Writing in English. 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Spanning from childhood to adulthood, from the 1930s’ Ukraine to present-day Khao San Road, from the privacy of a bedroom to the aftermath of a music festival, Icayan throws a sharp—but no less humane—light through the prism of stories, revealing a vast array of tonalities, from the terrifying darks to the redemptive shades. In her poems, unlikely objects, the past and the present, the contradictions of the human heart share the same body alive with vivid blood: “…a blooming patch of red\/ from where the skin touches grass, circular,\/ like a tulip in summer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy Anne Icayan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e works in the field of human rights. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBroadsided Press, Columbia Review \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePhilippines Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e. Her play \u003c\/span\u003e‘\u003cspan\u003eLast Ten Minutes\u003c\/span\u003e’ \u003cspan\u003ewas staged during the 10th Virgin Labfest. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eJoy Anne Icayan, \u003cem\u003eHarvest and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. ISBN 978-1-922181-85-5\u003cbr\u003e102mm x 154mm. 32pp.","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40527522948,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Icayan_db2_cover_6.jpg?v=1501221007"},{"product_id":"paul-maravillas-jerusalem-in-between-tongues","title":"Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, In Between Tongues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Between Tongues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, the tongue is both muscle and metaphor, an implement of desire and an instrument of language. Reckoning with the archipelagic Philippines and the island nation of Singapore, with the past and the present, with origin and destination, the poet negotiates the boundaries between the two through a perpetual act of code switching, gaining mastery in sleep (\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003eawed, that I had spoken my language fluently\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cspan\u003e) or in song (\u003c\/span\u003e“…\u003cspan\u003emy tongue, a serpent\/ shedding Singapore seasoned skin).\u003c\/span\u003e” \u003cspan\u003eHabitation with any of the two countries is fraught\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003eas with the body of the other\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003ebut the invitation remains: \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003ei want\/ you:\/\/ to find my land,\/ occupy me, invent\/ the idea of territory, and claim it for yours.\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Maravillas Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Singapore-born Filipino who is an undergraduate student at Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college in Singapore, where he is a major in Literature. His works have been published by the \u003cem\u003eQuarterly Literary Review Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e, and appeared in \u003cem\u003eLikhaan 10: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eASINGBOL: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Maravillas Jerusalem, \u003cem\u003eIn Between Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-92-3\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e102mm x 154mm. 26pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40527753668,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Jerusalem_db2_cover_3.jpg?v=1501220958"},{"product_id":"arvin-abejo-mangohig-lost-things","title":"Arvin Abejo Mangohig, Lost Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLost Things \u003c\/em\u003eby Arvin Abejo Mangohig is a book about disappearances: “tropical islands,” “the stories still to be told,” “your real name.” The task of the poet is as a recording angel, recalling from the brink of extinction everything that has been lost, urged by the voice telling him that\u003cem\u003e“(a)ll this…must be written down.” \u003c\/em\u003ePart of this act of recovery is to inhabit the skin of another, to the extent that the empathy of the imagination can allow, so that “(t)ogether we will walk out of the real into our true lives.” It is a life that necessarily has its eye on the end, but is endowed with a keen sense of the middle, the lived part, the “luminous thing.”    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArvin Abejo Mangohig\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gaze: Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(University of the Philippines Press, 2003) and \u003cem\u003eBloodflow: A Lyric Sequence \u003c\/em\u003e(De La Salle University Publishing House\/Central Books, 2012). 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Paredes has her eye on the ordinary (\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003ethe carrot that has\/ traveled miles, only to be\/ peeled naked at midnight\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cspan\u003e) and the oracular (\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003ea bruise-like dark\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003e[t]he eye [that] hovers overhead),\u003c\/span\u003e” \u003cspan\u003efashioning a lyric possessed with the rhythms the city and the iambs of the sea. These are poems of meticulous subtlety and precision, reclaiming memories long gone not in tones of lamentation or exultation but as registers of human experience apprehended in the truth of its first instance\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003ea clarity as hard as diamond, and as piercing. In their durable, unsentimental beauty, the poems expand with wide-awake presence and, after they are read, ignite with silence\u003c\/span\u003e—“…\u003cspan\u003ethe kind\/ that follows the discovery\/of a thing long feared.\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJasmine Nikki \"Nikay\" C. Paredes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas born and raised in Cebu City, Philippines. She is the author of the chapbook collection\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe Will See the Scatter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(dancing girl press, 2014), from which several poems won first prize in the 2015 Maningning Miclat Poetry Competition. She received a BFA in creative writing from Ateneo de Manila University and an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. 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The collection holds up a mirror to the most complex human relationship\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003ethat of the poet to the poet. In poetry that marries imagism with humor, moments of lightheartedness serve to heighten the gravity of Yao Feng\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es subject matter. \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003eSo much did I use the face\/ that no longer loves me,\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cspan\u003e he writes, \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003ethe face became a mask.\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cspan\u003e The poet fixes a gaze on his own image and lands in the precarious middle between total love and annihilation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 42\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYao Feng\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the pen-name of Yao Jingming, was born in Beijing in 1958. He studied Portuguese at university and worked as a diplomat for a time, but is now based in the former Portuguese colony of Macao. In additon to writing poetry in Chinese, he also writes in Portuguese and translates Portuguese poerty into Chinese. In 2006, he was awarded the Ordem Militar de Santiago de Espada medal by the President of Portugal. His \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Poems \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecame out in 2009. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eYao Feng, \u003cem\u003eOne Love Only Until Death\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-81-7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e102mm x 154mm. 42pp.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40528232836,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Feng_db2_cover_7.jpg?v=1501221064"},{"product_id":"rodrigo-dela-pena-jr-hymnal","title":"Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr., Hymnal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eHymnal\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Dela Pe\u003c\/span\u003eñ\u003cspan\u003ea crafts hymns not so much as homage to his city, but as homage to the city\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es yearnings. The vendor peddles bread and soybean custards, the self bristles under the cold shock of a morning shower, and we all hurtle into a collection of Mondays, in search of more than just Mondays. The collection is a series of hymns that give praise to each of our modern hungers and the small enlightenments that emerge from them as song.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 22\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRodrigo Dela Peña, Jr. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRequiem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a chapbook. His poems have been published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eLikhaan, Kritika Kultura, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand other journals and anthologies. He has received prizes from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Poetry, Kokoy F. Guevara Poetry Competition, British Council, Meritage Press, among others. He is based in Singapore. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eRodrigo Dela Peña, Jr., \u003cem\u003eHymnal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-69-5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e102mm x 154mm. 22pp.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40528548100,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Dela_Pena__db2_cover_9.jpg?v=1501221148"},{"product_id":"joel-toledo-the-blue-ones-are-machines","title":"Joel Toledo, The Blue Ones Are Machines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToledo\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es ruminative, lyrical verses reveal an interior world as lush as a canopy and as irresistible as sadness. His poetry asserts that even as the exterior world makes real all our abstractions, it is beyond its powers to faithfully reflect what runs inside the human machine. In Toledo\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es work, the exterior world is all we have, while the self slips ever out of reach. \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003eThe problem with the world is that it lacks the patience of light,\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cspan\u003e he writes, but it is precisely this problem that makes Toledo\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es poetry luminous.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 26\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn assistant professor at Miriam College, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoel M. Toledo\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003eholds a Master’s degree in English Studies (Poetry) from UP Diliman where he nished two undergraduate degrees in journalism and creative writing. He has four books of poetry: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChiaroscuro \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(UST, 2008); \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eLong Lost Startle\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(UP, 2009); \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRuins and Reconstructions \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Anvil, 2011); and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFault Setting \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(UP, 2015). He co-edited \u003cem\u003eCaracoa 2006\u003c\/em\u003e (poetry journal of the Philippine Literary Arts Council) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnder the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e( e Antithesis Collective, 2011). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eChiaroscuro, Ruins and Reconstructions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnder the Storm \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewere nalists for the National Book Awards. A recipient of the 2006 NCCA Literary Prize, he has won several other awards for his poetry in English: the Palanca, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilippines Free Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the Meritage Press Poetry Prize (San Francisco, USA), and the Bridport Prize (Dorset, United Kingdom). In 2011, he enjoyed a Rockefeller Foundation creative arts residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy and was a Fellow at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa. He has served as literary editor of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilippines Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand as a judge for poetry in various literary contests: the Palanca, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilippines Free Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the Maningning Miclat Awards. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoel Toledo, \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Ones Are Machines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-82-4\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e102mm x 154mm. 26pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40528828356,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Toledo_cover_2.jpg?v=1501220704"},{"product_id":"noelle-leslie-dela-cruz-sisyphus-on-the-penrose-stairs-meta-reveries","title":"Noelle Leslie Dela Cruz, Sisyphus on the Penrose Stairs: Meta-Reveries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDela Cruz\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es work and the sundry preoccupations of hers have evolved into some of the strongest contemporary Filipino poetry. Whether it\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es Thoreau, St. Anselm, or Monet, each thinker, artist, or philosopher she writes about is given new insight, and a place in modern contemplation. Adept in both the lyrical and narrative forms, Dela Cruz\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es range is wide and far-reaching in more ways than one. One reads her work and then is described by her work: \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003egooseflesh like a field of porcupines huddling in the wind.\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 40\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNoelle Leslie dela Cruz \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eteaches philosophy at De La Salle University (Manila), where she received her Ph.D. in philosophy and her MFA in creative writing. She was a poetry fellow in the 47th Silliman National Writers Workshop held in Dumaguete City, Philippines, as well as winner of the First Prize for poetry in the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards. Her poems have appeared in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Philippine Free Press magazine; Kritika Kultura, an international refereed journal of literary, language, and cultural studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e; and in the book Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, edited by Khavn de la Cruz and Joel M. Toledo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoelle Leslie Dela Cruz, \u003cem\u003eSisyphus on the Penrose Stairs: Meta-Reveries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. ISBN 978-1-922181-76-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e102mm x 154mm. 38pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40529082308,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Cruz_db2_cover.jpg?v=1501221299"},{"product_id":"mikael-de-lara-co-canopy","title":"Mikael de Lara Co, Canopy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 44\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMikael de Lara Co\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es poetry is decidedly Filipino in scope, vision and heart. Writing of the pre-colonial and the colonial experiences, the poet pieces together the dream of a nation from all its broken materials. Co\u003c\/span\u003e’\u003cspan\u003es project has made him one of the strongest contemporary Filipino poets. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMikael de Lara Co’s poetry and translations have garnered numerous accolades in the Philippines, among them four Palanca awards, two Maningning Miclat awards, and two nominations for the National Book Award. He staffed for former Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III, and currently heads the corporate communications division for a renewable energy company. He remains an active volunteer and advocate for public sector reform, climate justice, human rights, data privacy, and truth-telling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMikael de Lara Co, \u003cem\u003eCanopy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. 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