<p><strong>A raw, beautifully-composed collection exploring addiction, trauma, poverty, and the journey toward recovery and spirituality through the vernacular and iconography of the popular roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons.<\/strong><\/p>
\n<p>Total Party Kill (TPK):<em> tabletop roleplaying slang for the situation of all characters dying in the same in-game encounter. <\/em><\/p>
\n<p>At turns nightmarish, hilarious, brutally honest, and heart-breaking, <em>TPK<\/em> maps an unforgettable course into the fantastic dark of back-alley dive-bars, demonic underworlds, various rock bottom floors, and a whole host of monsters, both imagined and frighteningly real.<\/p>
\n<p><em>TPK <\/em>is a strange and deadly beast combining the imagery of Dungeons & Dragons with a real, life-or-death struggle for sobriety. Entirely unique in perspective and voice, the<em> <\/em>autobiographical speaker within changes fluidly between the poet, a variety of D&D characters, and combinations of both. The text within comprises a genre-bending quest where nothing\u2014especially continued sobriety\u2014is for certain. Operating less like traditional poetry and more like brief monologues or confessions\u2014but still concentrating on metaphor, meter, and sound\u2014<em>TPK<\/em> will appeal not only to lovers of the world\u2019s bestselling roleplaying game, nor just to lovers of poetry, but for anyone whose life has been touched by addiction.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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