7/29/13: Interview at The Baltimore Review

 

 The Baltimore Review was kind enough to post this interview I did with Stevenson University graduate Ian Lashley McIntosh. A lot of great questions!


I think, because I started out as a poet (even though I was a pretty terrible one), I pay more attention to the sound and rhythm of my prose—there’s a beat, a syncopation as it moves along, and sometimes I hear what the sentence sounds like and then add the words to it. Language is so much more than moving ideas from point a to b. It’s a song—it has notes, a beat. It has volume. It was arrangements. It has a vocalist and sometimes a choir



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