To Be, Conjugated

In twenty-five blisteringly incisive short poems , disabled poet Brian Koukol distills his experience with Duchenne muscular dystrophy to its most elemental -  a shriek of defiance, a requiem for existence, a howl of despair . Praised by DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark as " wicked " and " sharp as a razor's edge ,"  To Be, Conjugated  makes a stinging rebuke to the stereotypes of the past, creating a new future of authentic truth in all its messy, bracing glory.