Frank O'Hara wrote that his theory of poetrya theory that he dubbed "Personism" in a mock manifesto by the same nameplaces the poem "squarely between the poet and the person, Lucky Pierre . to press against our burning flesh not once but interminably Names abound--"Bastille," "Easthampton," "an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets / of Ghana are doing these days," "Miss Stillwagon," "Verlaine"--but "hers" never is (only hinted at in the title, with her own title, Lady Day, reversed). capable of bursting / into flame or merely / gleaming profoundly." ." Thus Joe Brainard remembering his friend Frank O'Hara. Since his death in 1966 at age forty, the depth and richness of his achievements as a poet and art critic have been recognized by an international audience. . This version was retrieved from Poetry Foundation. 50 years ago, at the time of his death, Frank OHara was better known as museum curator. The poems themselves do not even mention the word of the title, a cleverness the poet was well aware of. Only the accustomed syntactic structures prevail--subjects, predicates, clauses--supporting the progression that becomes a tramp of alien, autonomous images over an otherwise familiar bridge. Hilarity, heartbreak, and terrible traffic. Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency. Charles Altieri, for, instance, sees O'Hara as exemplifying a . In "On Rachmaninoff's Birthday," beginning "Quick! He must have felt the beauty and power of unconscious phenomena in surrealist poems, but what he does is to use this power and beauty to ennoble, complicate, and simplify waking actions." or being sick to my stomach . A new collection of autobiographical pieces documents the vast scope of Anne Waldman's literary and political imagination. Most wondered where he had found time to do it all. . It was written in the spring of 1953 but not published in book form until 1960. It begins with a (possibly) feigned and protracted preoccupation with cultural paraphernalia and distractions of the quotidian but moves with suddenness to testify to the sanctity of human life and talent, and the eternality of art that is literally, mimetically, breathtaking. "Ode to Joy" by Frank O'Hara . O'Hara was alert to all developments in his chosen art. . is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irn, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne. His early death only contributed to his legend and kept alive his memory until the publication of his collected writings confirmed for many what a few, mostly his friends and fellow poets, already knewthat he was an immensely gifted poet. We and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. You remember O'Hara from last Friday's poem, "Having a Coke With You," which sounds like a pornographic activity as this month of isolation comes to a close. An audio recording of "The Airport" from "Four Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos" has been provided below. Perloff wisely points out that when the two strands are merged--the surrealistic, with its endless variety and high-spirited inventiveness, and the personal, the spoken American, the colloquial narrative with its charming persona--O'Hara attains his triumph." . Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul, Naked 'Lunch': Behind the Scenes of Frank OHaras. A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet. The achievement of a form, then, which was also the imperative of Abstract Expressionism, brought O'Hara into the creative ambience of the painters." Schuyler remembers: "The day this was written I was having breakfast (i.e. A scene of desire and of loss. It is as unlikely that he would have abandoned the world of art as it is unlikely he would have abandoned poetry, despite the slowdown in production during the last years (he wrote only three poems the last year and a half of his life). This last statement is, in effect, a succinct definition of nonrepresentational art--and in that sense, Second Avenue is an embodiment of the techniques of Abstract Expressionism, the series of strokes that in their totality alone completes a form. . . . Francis Russell O'Hara (June 27, 1926 - July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New read more. I lived in Grafton, took a ride on a bus into Worcester every day to high school, and on Saturdays took a bus and a train to Boston to study piano. Death silences the trivia. hogy g hsunkhoz tapadjanak nemegyszer de vgtelenl March 31, 2008. Koch also suggests the chief persona of the poem is "a sort of Whitmanian I," though this is hardly discoverable. az sk s majd a kpzelet is mint fradt ivor-szeret They also happen to be the reason for their great success." A glass of ice. The piece begins with a sense of stress and then starts by "reviewing" themes from the first three movements and tries to find his perfect melody in each one (41:03). ], This is O'Hara at his best, combining his voice and personality with the most far-flung word montages." Jenny Xie (she/her/hers) reads "My Heart" by Frank O'Hara. A summer stint in a hospital, where poetry is necessary medicine. The structure is complex: images and reference build up on the surface of the poem and are not given order by generalization or summaries. At the same time O'Hara's innate Americanness was encouraged by writers such as William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore, together with the colloquial W. H. Auden, whom he felt to be an "American" poet in "his use of the vernacular." Go on, brothers, your way, Joyful, like a hero to victory. There are also an imitation of Wallace Stevens (with a touch of Marianne Moore) titled "A Procession for Peacocks"; a strict sonnet; a litany; poems in quatrains; couplets, and heroic couplets; poems with faithful rhyme patterns; and various prose poems. s tollprna tollszkodik a lehanyatl-monolit alatt The long ode to Goldberg is more like the Romantic-- specifically Wordsworthian--ode than any of the others. He left a record of an active intelligence as well as a body of poetry that challenged the norms of poetic form and reengaged the activity of creating with the normal events of the daily enterprise. After each movement is presented again the sound gets . He had a long association with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, beginning as a clerk at the information and sales desk in the front lobby, later becoming an assistant curator at the museum and an associate curator of painting and sculpture in 1965, despite his lack of formal training. Browse our 106 arrangements of "Ode to Joy." Sheet music is available for Piano, Voice, Guitar and 46 others with 22 scorings and 5 notations in 26 genres. He took courses at the New England Conservatory. The same is true of his poem of determined optimism dedicated to painter Mitchell ("Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's"), where happiness is "the least and best of human attainments," or the cohesiveness of "Platinum, Watching TV, Etc.," preserved in Poems Retrieved (1977), or the equally expansive poem to another painter friend titled "John Button Birthday." and therell be no more music but the ears in lips and no more wit Perceiving reality and attempting to remodel it in poetic form, he is perceiving and thinking spatially in blocks of information, both personal and referential, as a way to demonstrate that the acts of poetry are fully engaged in the activities of loving people, interacting with historical as well as contemporary events. Request a transcript here. . Frank O'Hara. Start Free Trial Upload Log in. . as evening signals nudities unknown to ancestors imaginations The poem sets out the history of O'Hara's relationship with Berkson, but it also presents around that history remarks or observations on "the music of the fears," of "September 15 (supine, unshaven, hungover, passive, softspoken)," of routines of eating, lists of fantastic favorites, "a long history of populations," and comparisons to the poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, "pretty rose preserved in biotherm." The poem walks the reader through various scenes in New York City and alludes to a wide variety of places and people. The allusion to The Rite of Spring is obvious enough. Definition of "ode' is a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for something, in this case for joy. He was that. Rivers's painting Second Avenue (1958) needs to be mentioned as well." Aldebaran and Mizar, / a guitar of toothpaste tubes and fingernails, trembling spear"--they are hardly full-bodied; rather they are subliminal phantoms, too fleeting even for associations. Brad Gooch's biography, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara (1993), makes it possible to trace the biographical, cultural, and literary information in the poems. It may even be a noble poem, like "Ode to Joy," in pleading for "no more dying," and in the hurry and demands of the city, to live with love. will swell from the walls and books alive in steaming rooms . . great cities where all life is possible to maintain as long as time . The Use of Imagery in the Poetry "Fern Hill" . . Frank O'Hara was a dynamic leader of the "New York School" of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. a forg letbe mit nmagnak rkl vlaszt Mail.Ru . Robert J. Bertholf, State University of New York at Buffalo. No more dying, Mindennk meglesz s tbb nem lesz hall his fairly straightforward poem, Schiller wants to create a feeling and appreciation for the emotion of joy in the reader. From near the sea, like Whitman my great predecessor, to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my. New Brunswick-based poet Cassandra Gillig hsget nteni a szvbe etetni a vgyat intravns utakon ], " Aria Aber knows how to find the space between the buildings, the beauty in the ruins. ode to joy (frank o' hara) - henry wolfe. Try! for our symbol we'll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter. and the hermit always wanting to be lone is lone at last The world of Frank O'Hara. Dated 1953. Frank liked the arrangement and my 'tentative' title. The "original decorations" of thirty poems collected by Berkson under the title In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems (1967) testify to O'Hara's attunement with the vision and process of the new movements in the arts, and Homage to Frank O'Hara (1978) collects many additional drawings, paintings, memories, and testimonies to O'Hara as a poet and advocate for the arts. As Brad Gooch details in his biography of O'Hara, City Poet, O'Hara believed that he was born on June 27, 1926. We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying on the pretty plains or in the supper clubs for our symbol we'll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter over an insatiable sexual appetite and the streets will be filled with racing forms and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and . . --but then held suspended, as up a sleeve, until the end, and released when most appropriate, in the natural order of events:", then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue, and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and, casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton, of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it, and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of, while she whispered a song along the keyboard, to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing[.]. . pouring hunger through the heart to feed desire in intravenous ways Day. His special subject was the encounter of the active sensibility with the world about it through extravagant fantasy, a ready wit, and a detailed realism of feelings. This is a large poem to maintain without a narrator; but, on the other hand, the situation removes the ego of the poem from the process of the poem and then allows a multitude of gestures to run in at all points. This version was retrieved from Poetry Foundation. While employed by the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara was the curator or cocurator of nineteen exhibitions. The poem joins eating with the making of language, as a "MENU" for Berkson suggests, but there is also the connection between eating and talking: The frame of reference is immense, and there are puns and playful connections on and with French and English. Sad news for readers of Frank O'Hara: Vincent Warren, the ballet dancer who has often been described as the true love of O'Hara's life, passed away on October 25 at the age of 79, some 50 years after O'Hara himself. Bernadette Mayer writes through the pandemic. Frank O'Hara - St. Paul and All That. fojtott szoba-falakrl s knyvekbl duzzadnak elevenn O'Hara's personality became famous long before his poetry did. A survey of his Early Writing (1977), written between 1946 and 1950 while O'Hara was still a student at Harvard, reveals a striking diversity of forms that includes ballads, songs, a blues (so-called), a madrigal, musical exercises such as a gavotte, a dirge (complete with strophe, antistrophe, and epode), and even more exotic forms such as the French triolet. From the beginning It is inextricably linked now with Beethoven's Ninth . --not newness, not keenness, but an absurd kneeness. The title of the exhibition was changed when Donald Allen used it as the title of his anthology The New American Poetry. . . As the painter Alex Katz remarked, "Frank's business was being an active intellectual." Over 60 guests have chosen this tune. The open arms of the second person beckon anyone in; we are at home in the delights of Frank's quotidian world. . The poem demonstrates the process of the poet finding in the non-causal relationships of events that a singular coherence precipitates strong emotions. John Bernard Myers, the publisher of Tibor de Nagy Editions, remembered: "I waited for these poems for three or four years; Frank could never get himself to type them up. Themes of "the self," varieties of feelings . . . "Ode to Joy" is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Sheng Kong. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. For Frank O'Hara: Morton Feldman's Three Voices as Interpretation and Elegy Scott W. Klein Morton Feldman's 1982 Three Voices, a large concert work for solo voice that takes its textual materials from Frank O'Hara's 1957 poem 'Wind', is perhaps the most unusual musical setting of a poem in the history of the genre. Like Stevens, in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," O'Hara is a poet of the city who concentrates on enacting the processes of the mind as it contacts reality. Compared to him everyone else seemed a little self-conscious, abashed, or megalomaniacal." s az gen mrhetetlen gyengdsg ingerli a madarakat But mostlyjoy." This definition is both inaccurate and incomplete. The famous German poem Ode to Joy (Ode), which was composed by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller at the age of 26 (Kirby), is a significant work during Sturm und Drang. over an insatiable sexual appetite "Having a Coke with You. Showing 1-30 of 161. and get knocked off it by his wife later in the day. ." This period of experimentation and learning (although the imitations and parodies continued) advanced into an interest in post-Symbolist French poetry, especially that of Guillaume Apollinaire and later Pierre Reverdy, along with the big-voiced, roaring surrealism of Vladimir Mayakovski. . Chapter Two discusses the consequences of plurality of meaning for the self and for a political position. O'Hara's work was first brought to the attention of the wider public, like that of so many others of his generation, by Allen's timely and historic anthology, The New American Poetry (1960). O'Hara even forgoes his tendency to wisecrack before the seriousness of his intended theme: "here where to love at all's to be a politician," he writes, threatening sarcasm, and continues with a mocking rhyme, "as to love a poem / is pretentious, this may sound tendentious but it's lyrical." lecsapni s vltoztatni irnyt mint a mszkl legyek elfoglalt vgtagokon They included music, dance, and Expressionist painting. He lives with his brother. The largest collection of O'Hara's papers is at Harvard University. In 1956 O'Hara was one of the original founders of the Poets Theater in Cambridge. Dimensions. But such blithe joy is, however, too carefree to last. From near the sea, like Whitman my great predecessor, I call. His essay,"Nature and New Painting," indicating a surprisingly early familiarity with Charles Olson's "Projective Verse" essay (1950) before it became widely known later in the decade, was the subject of three panel discussions in January and February of 1955." Taking into consideration the time when the poems were written, it is no wonder that the author chose to describe his experience of coming out as a homosexual to his readers. 489 likes. His articulate intelligence made new proposals for poetic form possible in American poetry. . but tongues in ears and no more drums but ears to thighs UB Art Galleries Buffalo, New York Rights & Reproductions Ode to Joy: Directed by Jason Winer. jn aszly a szrre mely gyjti a nemiszervek aggd nyilatkozatt The poem includes details about O'Hara's life in Baltimore, his trip to the "first movie," observations about "trysts," adventures in the South Seas during World War II, a statement about his first homosexual experience in a hay barn, and his life in New York at the "Five Spot" and around the city. )," for example, was written on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading, and his most important statement of poetics, "Personism," was written in less than an hour while Allen, who requested it, was on his way across town to pick it up. Surrealism is at easy reach but not overshadowing; there is care for what Olson called the "dailynesses," varied rhythms, syncopation gained by restricting punctuation, an organic syntax, the trust to natural speech (although still very much the speech of a dashing sophisticate), the informed chatter, the management of time in a poem such as "Fantasy," the recurrent optimism of "Poem (Khrushchev's coming)." which wants us to remain for cocktails in a bar and after dinner Given the nature of subsequent political and social events, he might have become the Juvenal of his day. There are nine odes in the book, along with three prints by Michael Goldberg. . These are all poems written when O'Hara was most at home in his world and at the full strength of his style. Finally he let the project drop, not because he didn't wish his work to appear, but because his thoughts were elsewhere, in the urban world of fantasy where the poems came from." . O'Hara was at the forefront of the rise of the American avant-garde, helping elevate Abstract Expressionism, and . The extent, the sheer volume of his writings, came as a surprise to many of even his closest friends. Oil on canvas. . The poem is neither celebratory nor congratulatory (it is not, despite the title, a birthday poem for the painter but was written during the three months after his birthday). . Stream Ode To Joy Frank O Hara x Henry Wolfe by MeghanKathleen on desktop and mobile. . analysis for an'appreciation of O"Hara"s work. Frank O'Hara. "The Day Lady Died" was written in 1964. O'Hara incorporated Surrealistic and Dadaistic techniques within a colloquial speech and the flexible syntax of an engaging and democratic postmodernism. Jenny Xie reads "My Heart" by Frank O'Hara, On Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the Museum of Modern Art, Poem [Khrushchev is coming on the right day!], Poem [The eager note on my door said, Call me,], Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, as Perdita, Variations on Pasternak's "Mein Liebchen, Was Willst Du Noch Mehr?". He was the first of the young New York Poets to write regular art criticism, serving as editorial associate for Art News, contributing reviews and occasional articles from 1953 to 1955. and the imagination itself will stagger like a tired paramour of ivory . In some of the poems following "Biotherm," O'Hara continued using the spatial relationships of language in such poems as "Legend," "The Old Machinist," "Poem" ("At the top of the ring"), for example. a telhetetlen szexulis tvgy fl The poem projects intense energy as it enacts the process of motion, of the eye and the mind moving on and around the urban scene. It's Frank O'Hara's birthday!!! Dark & Light Symbolism in Literature. (later produced by the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he helped found). In that complex of associations he devised an idea of poetic form that allowed the inclusion of many kinds of events, including everyday conversations and notes about New York advertising signs. Professional critics found O'Hara's criticism too subjective and lacking in the disciplines of critical analysis. He was an assistant for the important exhibition, "The New American Painting," which toured eight European cities in 1958-1959. ], " Died. The poem whose opening bang is lodged most noisily in my memory has no name; its title, in Donald Allen's edition of the Collected Poems, is . and the streets will be filled with racing forms . It was not until O'Hara's Lunch Poems was published in 1965 that his reputation gained ground and not until after his sudden death that his recognition increased. Frank O'Hara: Poems essays are academic essays for citation. A third workMarisol's print Paris Review (1967)cinches the connection between Love and her memorial drawing for O'Hara, serving as a transitional link between the two.The print translates Love into a flat graphic form and bears the same profile that appears in Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings (this time with bright pink lipstick offering a hyperfeminine contrast to the bald . One of the highlights of O'Hara's collected works is Odes, all written in 1957-1958 and originally published in a highly priced limited edition (in a boxed set with similar collections by the other principal New York School poets--Ashbery, Koch, and Schuyler). He missed the activity of New York and returned in 1951, working briefly as private secretary to photographer Cecil Beaton and then at the Museum of Modern Art. A young girl in the poem indicates that Pollock is not in his grave but in the woods, that he and his art are part of the process of death and rebirth, conceiving and reconceiving artistic forms. Mitchell chose Ode to Joy as the title of her triptych in homage to Frank O'Hara, as if she knew that the poet's incessant effort to find love and a bit of peace within the pressure of daily living caught the core of O'Hara's life and art." Vincent Prestianni, "Frank O'Hara: An Analytic Bibliography of Bibliographies,", Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur, eds., "Homage to Frank O'Hara,", Mutlu Konuk Blasing, "Frank O'Hara's Poetics of Speech: The Example of 'Biotherm,'", Gregory W. Bredbeck, "B/O--Barthes's Text / O'Hara's Trick,", James E. B. Breslin, "Frank O'Hara," in his, Terence Diggory, "Questions of Identity in Oranges by Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan,", Roger Gilbert, "Frank O'Hara and Gary Snyder: The Walk as Sample," in his, Susan Holahan, "Frank O'Hara's Poetry," in, Kenneth Koch, "Frank O'Hara and His Poetry: An Interview," in, Anthony Libby, "O'Hara on the Silver Range,", John Lowney, "The 'post-anti-esthetic' Poetics of Frank O'Hara,", Thomas Meyer, "Glistening Torsos, Sandwiches, Coca-Cola,", Charles Molesworth, "'The Clear Architecture of the Nerves': The Poetry of Frank O'Hara,", William Weaver, "Remembering Frank O'Hara,". and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and movie stars. The use of the word might even be a Platonic joke. With Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin, Jake Lacy, Melissa Rauch. I wrote 'Love Poems (Tentative Title)' on the first page, then arranged them so that the sequence would show the beginning of a new love, its middle period of floundering, the collapse of the affair with its attendant sadness and regret. The cigarette smoke began jetting from Frank's nostrils and he went into the next room and wrote SLEEPING ON THE WING in a great clatter of keys." . His casual attitude toward his poetic career is reminiscent of the casual composition of many of the poems themselves. Picked up by moi in 1964 and purchased, not for ninety-five cents as priced on back (Totem Press), but for five francs twenty-five centimes, in Paris at Shakespeare and Company, which was almost the same as one dollar considering it had to fly the Atlantic . A slightly revised version was published in 1808, changing two lines of the first stanza and removed the last one. a last poem before I go / off my rocker," the final line-- "You'll never be mentally sober"--comments on the previous assortment of images and relates to the initial "I," rounding out the poem while adding a dimension of self-reflection and conscious control to an otherwise indulgent randomness. Ashbery is often recognized as the master of telling parables in poems, but here O'Hara demonstrates that he also has mastered the form. O'Hara advances this poem by the spatial relationships of blocks of information and by using different internal voices, which are indicated by indentations and internal margins. s a vipera az utols strucctojsrt is almerl Rate this book. under the sculptural necessities of lust that never falters It tends to flow from one line to the next, placing . It is not his alone, but the human and historical condition. ahogy vz nyargal a hegyrl telt ajk medencbe Frank O'Hara Salute to the French Negro Poet, Aim Csaire i. introDuction In the opening lines of "Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets" (1958), midcentury American poet Frank O'Hara beckons: "From near the sea, like Whitman my great predecessor, I call/to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence" (1-2). The poems at times can be correctly read as intense personal statements, not just sleight-of-hand performances. Poem after poem is of a high order of achievement--"Rhapsody," "Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul," "Joe's Jacket," "You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming," and "Personal Poem." Charlie has a rare disorder that causes him to lose control of his muscles whenever he is overcome by strong emotions. From out of the process of death and rebirth "beneath the blue," or living the life of the imagination as Stevens imagined it, a poet will emerge who understands that life is lived within contrary forces--"poverty and sweetness," "pain" and "an extraordinary liberty." The generation of an idea of form in the poem, then, becomes much more important than a doctrine of composition or a sermon about city life. Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere. Lotions. . The fairly simple theme, harmony and rhythm make it a poem for the common person. More likely, his growing recognition among young poets would have spurred him further. O'Hara published only two book reviews: one of poetry collections by friends Chester Kallman, Ashbery, and Edwin Denby; the other of John Rechy's City of Night, 1963. There are repeated reminders of the "darkness" at the center of life, but even as that darkness occurs it appears "a glistening / blackness in the center / if you seek it . A self-aware performance courting danger. Even at the end, in the city of the future, almost a new world, "poverty" and "sweetness" persist as parallels." It concerns the growth of both the poet's mind and of his role (as poet), autobiographically moving through memories of childhood toward a confrontation with mortality. He worked at the Museum of Modern Art and curated nineteen exhibitions. Published 1960. Hanif Abdurraqib & Angel Nafis vs. AWP Live! The process of language achieving articulation through the body and then collecting itself in a web of multiple associations finally becomes the subject of the poem. We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying on the pretty plains or in the supper clubs for our symbol we'll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter over an insatiable sexual appetite and the streets will be filled with racing forms and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and movie stars will swell Second Avenue: Poems by Frank O'Hara (1960) Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara (1964) The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, edited by John Ashbery and Donald Allen (1995) Meditations in an Emergency: Poems by Frank O'Hara (1957) Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara, edited by Mark Ford (2008) Writings on Art: Jackson Pollock by Frank O'Hara (1959 . blood that we have mountains in our veins to stand off jackals / in the pillaging of our desires and allegiances. At its worst or most excessive, his style lapses into giddiness, or what Stuart Byron calls "Queertalk." do not spare your wrath upon our shores, that trees may grow. 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