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Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to Plath (Book w/ Audio CD) - Hardcover
"By the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more."
– WALL STREET JOURNAL
"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic."
- BOOKLIST
"...The prose comes to life when read aloud, especially when you hear James Joyce read it himself."
– NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED host Jacki Lyden
"This tome is a reminder how the human spirit is capable of finding an outlet in oppressive times, how poetry can help explain why we do what we do as a thinking people...Certainly, in our struggle to make sense out of what we do not understand, Poetry Speaks Expanded helps on so many levels." – Carol Hoenig, THE HUFFINGTON POST
"...[A] bountiful experience: there is the thrill of discovery and re-discovery as with any good anthology, with an added emphasis on the poets' personalities and growth" – John Hammond, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
"[An] accessible, beautifully executed collection guaranteed to offer poetry fans a memorable reading and listening experience" – WORDCANDY.NET
"...[A]s I savored these beautiful poems, it reminded me of French poet Charles Baudelaire who wrote, 'Any man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.'" - Norm Goldman, BOOKPLEASURES.COM
"Light[s] up a reader's eyes." - Frank Wilson, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Hear And Read All Of These Poets (And More)
244 Poems Included In The Book
107 Poems Read By The Poets Themselves On 3 Audio CDs
Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet's words with the poet's voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"
-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Poetry
--For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book
--T. S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
--Sylvia Plath's anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
--Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano
--May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading
--H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death
--Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview
--A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
--W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way
--Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Essays Written By Today's Most Influential Poets, Including: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes
"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."
-QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB
A Book Sense Top-10 Selection
– WALL STREET JOURNAL
"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic."
- BOOKLIST
"...The prose comes to life when read aloud, especially when you hear James Joyce read it himself."
– NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED host Jacki Lyden
"This tome is a reminder how the human spirit is capable of finding an outlet in oppressive times, how poetry can help explain why we do what we do as a thinking people...Certainly, in our struggle to make sense out of what we do not understand, Poetry Speaks Expanded helps on so many levels." – Carol Hoenig, THE HUFFINGTON POST
"...[A] bountiful experience: there is the thrill of discovery and re-discovery as with any good anthology, with an added emphasis on the poets' personalities and growth" – John Hammond, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
"[An] accessible, beautifully executed collection guaranteed to offer poetry fans a memorable reading and listening experience" – WORDCANDY.NET
"...[A]s I savored these beautiful poems, it reminded me of French poet Charles Baudelaire who wrote, 'Any man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.'" - Norm Goldman, BOOKPLEASURES.COM
"Light[s] up a reader's eyes." - Frank Wilson, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Hear And Read All Of These Poets (And More)
244 Poems Included In The Book
107 Poems Read By The Poets Themselves On 3 Audio CDs
Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet's words with the poet's voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"
-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Poetry
--For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book
--T. S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
--Sylvia Plath's anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
--Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano
--May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading
--H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death
--Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview
--A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
--W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way
--Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Essays Written By Today's Most Influential Poets, Including: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes
"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."
-QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB
A Book Sense Top-10 Selection
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Hear the Voices of poetry
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poetís words with the poetís voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
ìThis book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years.î
óPUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
ìReaders and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set.î
óLIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
ìSuperb, accessible....A unique and essential purchaseî
óSCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
ìIt is the rare combination of spoken and written words that makes Poetry Speaks one of the most comprehensive and enjoyable anthologies available.î
óSALON.COM
ELISE PASCHEN is the author of Houses: Coasts and Infidelities and winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and
anthologies. A graduate of Harvard University, she holds M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in 20th-century literature from Oxford University. Former Executive Director of the Poetry
Society of America, she is the cofounder of Poetry in Motion, a nationwide program that places poetry in subways and buses, and the coeditor of Poetry In Motion, and Poetry in
Motion from Coast to Coast. She is also the editor of the New York Times best-selling Poetry Speaks to Children. Dr. Paschen teaches in the writing program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
REBEKAH PRESSON MOSBY is known for her work in poetry audio, for producing and hosting New Letters on the Air on National Public Radio for 13 years, and for interviews with writers and artists. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her work as producer/editor of the 4-CD box set Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888ñ2006).She also edited the groundbreaking Rhino Records poetry box sets, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work. Mosbyís other projects include producing a Living History for Colgate University by interviewing 40 individuals with ties to the college and selecting work for the poetry room at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Dallas. At present, Mosby is teaching Radio Writing at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
DOMINIQUE RACCAH is founder, president and publisher of Sourcebooks, a leading independent publisher outside of Chicago. Today Sourcebooks is the worldís leading
publisher of poetry in book-and-audio form, and also publishes nonfiction and fiction. Raccah first envisioned Poetry Speaks in 1997 as an interactive, engaging way to
experience spoken and written poetry. In 2005 she brought poetry to younger readers with the New York Times bestseller Poetry Speaks to Children.
CHARLES OSGOOD, often referred to as CBS Newsís poet in residence, has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. He also anchors and writes The
Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. He was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2000, and the National
Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1999. Osgood received the 2005 Paul White Award, presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association for his lifetime
contribution to electronic journalism, and the Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism Award from Arizona State University. He also has three Peabody Awards, three
Emmys, a Marconi Radio Award, and a 1999 International Radio and Television Society Foundation (IRTS) Award for significant achievement. He is the author of six books,
including Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack and The Osgood Files, and recently edited Funny Letters From Famous People and Kilroy Was Here
From the Back Cover:
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poetís words with the poetís voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
ìThis book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years.î
óPUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
ìReaders and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set.î
óLIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
ìSuperb, accessible....A unique and essential purchaseî
óSCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
ìIt is the rare combination of spoken and written words that makes Poetry Speaks one of the most comprehensive and enjoyable anthologies available.î
óSALON.COM
ELISE PASCHEN is the author of Houses: Coasts and Infidelities and winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and
anthologies. A graduate of Harvard University, she holds M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in 20th-century literature from Oxford University. Former Executive Director of the Poetry
Society of America, she is the cofounder of Poetry in Motion, a nationwide program that places poetry in subways and buses, and the coeditor of Poetry In Motion, and Poetry in
Motion from Coast to Coast. She is also the editor of the New York Times best-selling Poetry Speaks to Children. Dr. Paschen teaches in the writing program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
REBEKAH PRESSON MOSBY is known for her work in poetry audio, for producing and hosting New Letters on the Air on National Public Radio for 13 years, and for interviews with writers and artists. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her work as producer/editor of the 4-CD box set Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888ñ2006).She also edited the groundbreaking Rhino Records poetry box sets, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work. Mosbyís other projects include producing a Living History for Colgate University by interviewing 40 individuals with ties to the college and selecting work for the poetry room at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Dallas. At present, Mosby is teaching Radio Writing at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
DOMINIQUE RACCAH is founder, president and publisher of Sourcebooks, a leading independent publisher outside of Chicago. Today Sourcebooks is the worldís leading
publisher of poetry in book-and-audio form, and also publishes nonfiction and fiction. Raccah first envisioned Poetry Speaks in 1997 as an interactive, engaging way to
experience spoken and written poetry. In 2005 she brought poetry to younger readers with the New York Times bestseller Poetry Speaks to Children.
CHARLES OSGOOD, often referred to as CBS Newsís poet in residence, has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. He also anchors and writes The
Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. He was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2000, and the National
Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1999. Osgood received the 2005 Paul White Award, presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association for his lifetime
contribution to electronic journalism, and the Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism Award from Arizona State University. He also has three Peabody Awards, three
Emmys, a Marconi Radio Award, and a 1999 International Radio and Television Society Foundation (IRTS) Award for significant achievement. He is the author of six books,
including Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack and The Osgood Files, and recently edited Funny Letters From Famous People and Kilroy Was Here
Hear and Read
HEAR AND READ ALL OF THESE POETS (AND MORE)
107 POEMS READ BY THE POETS THEMSELVES ON 3 AUDIO CDS
Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats,
Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes,
Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson,
Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg,
Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas,
Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet's words with the poet's voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"
-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
"It is the rare combination of spoken and written words that makes Poetry Speaks one of the most comprehensive and enjoyable anthologies available."
-SALON.COM
Poetry
--For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book
--T. S.Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
--Sylvia Plath's anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
--Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano
--May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading
--H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death
--Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview
--A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
--W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way
--Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
ESSAYS WRITTEN BY TODAY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL POETS, INCLUDING: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes
"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."
-QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB
"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"It speaks volumes for Poetry Speaks that by the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there were more."
-WALL STREET JOURNAL
A Book Sense Top-10 Selection
HEAR AND READ ALL OF THESE POETS (AND MORE)
107 POEMS READ BY THE POETS THEMSELVES ON 3 AUDIO CDS
Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats,
Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes,
Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson,
Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg,
Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas,
Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet's words with the poet's voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"
-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
"It is the rare combination of spoken and written words that makes Poetry Speaks one of the most comprehensive and enjoyable anthologies available."
-SALON.COM
Poetry
--For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book
--T. S.Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
--Sylvia Plath's anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
--Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano
--May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading
--H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death
--Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview
--A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
--W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way
--Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
ESSAYS WRITTEN BY TODAY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL POETS, INCLUDING: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes
"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."
-QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB
"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"It speaks volumes for Poetry Speaks that by the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there were more."
-WALL STREET JOURNAL
A Book Sense Top-10 Selection
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ISBN 10: 1402210620
ISBN 13: 9781402210624
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 2nd Edition. First edition 2007, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Published by Sourcebooks MediaFusion. Hardcover with DJ, 3 audio CDs in sealed pocket. Condition new, square and tight book, corners not bumped, no edgewear, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent pages corners, not a reminder. DJ new, bright and shiny, no tears, no chips, no shelfwear, price not clipped (49.95). 4to, 400 pages, illustrated with photographs. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders. Seller Inventory # 022231
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ISBN 10: 1402210620
ISBN 13: 9781402210624
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Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 3.59. Seller Inventory # Q-1402210620
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