Promiscuous Ruin

Borrowing sensibility from docupoetics, where lyricism works to comment on an archive, and drawing upon Theodore Roosevelt's "Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky," Promiscuous Ruin is the winner of the first annual WTAW Alcove Chapbook Series Prize. In the bygone era of a decaying frontier, deer hunters Lemuel and Lars hitch up as backwoods companions. Each troubled by missing mothers and flinty fathers, they thwart attempts at intimacy, funneling these impulses into fantasies of violence and r...