To Be Conjugated

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In twenty-five blisteringly incisive short poems</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> disabled poet Brian Koukol distills his experience with Duchenne muscular dystrophy to its most elemental - </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a shriek of defiance a requiem for existence a howl of despair</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Praised by DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark as </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>wicked</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>sharp as a razor's edge</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To Be Conjugated</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> makes a stinging rebuke to the stereotypes of the past creating a new future of authentic truth in all its messy bracing glory.</span></p>