SOURCE: “Unspoken Genius,” in Real Detroit Weekly, January 13–19, 2000.
In the following interview, Alteri questions Carroll about his spoken-word recordings, his feelings about poetry, his drug addiction, and the conflict between his musical career and his literary aspirations.
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