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.