{"id":250,"date":"2008-02-19T05:21:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/toby-barlow-bss-181\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:29:44","slug":"toby-barlow-bss-181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/toby-barlow-bss-181\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Barlow (BSS #181)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Barlow is the author of <i>Sharp Teeth<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/barlow.jpg' alt='barlow.jpg' align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3570\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-250-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=250-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo181.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 33:52 &#8212; 31.0MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Distrusting of certain types of poetry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpteeththebook.com\/\">Toby Barlow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The appeal of free verse, genre distinctions, the concern for lycanthropic physiology, Terry Pratchett, deviating from the rules in the werewolf canon, Brian Francis Slattery&#8217;s <i>Spaceman Blues<\/i>, a hyper-giddy version of the New Weird, Anne Carson&#8217;s <i>Autobiography of Red<\/i>, Donald Barthelme, Homer, James Ellroy, &#8220;Pay attention,&#8221; pop cultural references, purposeful wordplay, water as a love metaphor, pulp and Los Angeles, Chandleresque metaphors, <i>Gun With Occasional Music<\/i>, odd statistics, the possibly apocryphal idea that 38% of the homeless population living in Los Angeles, dog population statistics, the Santa Ana winds, mining the Interweb, verbs that reflect nouns, the dog world beholden to alliteration, Aristotle&#8217;s &#8220;prime mover,&#8221; Godel&#8217;s incompleteness theorem, the Ukan way, DC &#8220;straight edge&#8221; punk, ways of reading text, lawyers, carne asada tacos, bridge columns in the newspaper, Alfred Bester&#8217;s &#8220;Hobson&#8217;s Choice,&#8221; the desire for community, and balancing narrative elements of a quest with free verse.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><b>Barlow:<\/b> I knew I wasn&#8217;t writing poetry.  So I was not looking at in that style or strict formal style.  But I did want &#8212; I did create breaks most of the time.  There were a lot of line breaks in it.  But most of the time, I was creating breaks when I wanted the ear to kind of catch twice.  So the phrase had its own meaning.  And I wanted to break up that phrase, and break the way that you were going to hear it or see it.  So there would be a kind of constant tumbling over process as you went through the book.  Because again, I think that that added a lot of drive to the piece.  Even lines that felt cliched.  If you break them in the right way, they&#8217;re suddenly not cliche anymore.  They&#8217;re suddenly a little &#8212; there&#8217;s just a bump in the road where you didn&#8217;t expect it.  And I just wanted to keep people guessing and thinking and moving through it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3571\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-250-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=250-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo181.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo181.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 33:52 &#8212; 31.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Barlow is the author of Sharp Teeth. 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