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Rodefer’s poetry)\n\t\t224\t“Erosis”\n\t\t238\t“Commotion”\n\t\t245\t“What is it in us…”\n\t\t250\t“Poem called…”\n\t\t260\t“She Cine”\n\t\t285\tIntroduces poems from a record soon to be released called “3 ¾” – perhaps “45”\n\t\t294\t“Moving Van”\n\t\t304\t“Written on the breast of Sue” (in collaboration with Perry Chalmers)\n\t\t324\t“There is blood on the sheets…” (for Anna Banana)\n\t\t346\t“Bulge event – for the Batty Persons Gallery”\n\t\t368\t“Masturbation ramble”\n\t\t379\t“Rand McNally ramble”\n\t\t393\t“Give me your hand…”\n\t\t\tFrom “Lady material” (tent. Title for MS)\n\t\t421\t“Memory”\n\t\t443\t“Reply to an adamant lover at a distance”\n\t\t480\tColeman talks about his fantasy poetry reading tour\n\t\t485\t“Things to do in North Hampton with my Pectus Excavatum”\n\t\t509\tIntro. to poems from Doppelganger sonnet sequence\n\t\t519\t“Sonnet – Doppelganger #1”\n\t\t533\t“I live in the violent heterosexual night…”\n\t\t546\tExperiences at the Kerouac School of disembodied poetics\n\t\t561\t“Entertainments of the socially outcast”\n\t\t582\t“Sonnet – Doppelganger #2”\n\t\t617\t“A flame” (for Vicky)\n\t\t650\t“Homesick, lovesick blues”\n\t\t689\t“An indulgence”\n\t\t739\t“I am not now nor have I ever been…”\n\t\t801 \tEnd of reading"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Victor Coleman Reading at the Western Front, October 1977 Side 1 32:20 Side 2 28:50 Dolby B\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554841645059,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.214Z","score":3.6623697}]