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p.33)\n\t\t167\t“The rest of this… particular part of Remote Control is going to be on a P.A. system…”\n\t\t178\t“From a handbook of remote control” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto Coach House Press, 1975, p.87)\n\t\t359\t“Scenario” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 1975, p. 84)\n\t\t432\t“The midnight dew” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 1975, p. 27)\n\t\t444\t“Palace of fear” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 1975, p. 30)\n\t\t465\t“A metaphor from remote control”\n\t\t513\t“The song of remote control” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 1975, p. 94)\n\t\t530\t“That’s the end of the Remote control section… now some of the poetry from Fovea centralis “\n\t\t544\t“I wrote a number of poems called ‘Opium poems’…”\n\t\t560\t“Opium love #3” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 1975, p. 24)\n\t\t581\t“Opium #2” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto, Coach House, 1975, p. 23)\n\t\t597\t“Opium #1” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 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(Announces he’ll read)  “The song of remote control”  (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 1975,p. 92)  The beginning of this tape is a duplicate of tape 286 from side 1, 513\n\t\t571\tC.D.’s reading ends as on side one, tape 286\n\t\t572\tIntroduction of Robert Fones by Mary Beth Knechtel (?) “He read at the Front on March 31, 1975.”\n\t\t585\tRobert Fones: “I’m going to start off with a few things from Anthropomorphiks…”\n\t\t590\t“City”\n\t\t620\t“The one-eyed jack”\n\t\t657\t“Ozone” (“The beginning of a new series of things I’ve been writing based on “The ant lions”)\n\t\t692\t“Ode to a miniature Roy Rogers”\n\t\t801\tReads poems from The forest city\n\t\t808\t“Music beings convey the tone arm to the record...”\n\t\t848\t“Seen through a snow fence, a frieze of history animates…”\n\t\t887\t“Here, in the city, where there are no foxes…”\n\t\t1000\t“…I was…conceiving London (Ont.) as a grail city, in a sense…and everyone is a hologram in the poem…This (next) poem is…the arrival of the Galahad figure, who is going to free \nthe town…”\n\t\t1018\t“I am a knight with a Cadillac of power windows…\"\n\t\t1041\t“Woozles” (for Chris Dewdney)\n\t\t1100\t“Turpentine”\n\t\t1137\tSpeaks of the following two poems as being tied in with his sense of limited vision”.\n\t\t1213\t“Partial”\n\t\t1262\t“Impartial”\n\t\t1291\t“Rinky-Tink for slinger” (for Ed Dorn)\n\t\t1320\t“This is one of the few cone poems I ever wrote that explains…my fascination for them, called “Wouldn’t it be sad if there were no cones?”\n\t\t1412\t“Roberts Creek”\n\t\t1480\tSound ends – side one ends\n\t\t\tThe rest of Robert Fones’s reading may be found on Tape no. 290, side on left channel."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Robert Fones Reading at the Western Front March 31, 1975 24 min Dolby B\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"The Western Front is the donor as inventory says \",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554832207874,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.214Z","score":4.6102867}]