The tip of a branch, all green leaves except for one shriveled brown one, backgrounded by a variegated sky of seafoam and indigo with the text: "To Be, Conjugated"

In twenty-five blisteringly incisive single-page 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.

A Few Poems

"(n)evergreen" – Rogue Agent Journal

"Diagenesis" – Wordgathering

"Fear of a Spark" – Wordgathering

"Make Way"; "Lebensunwertes Leben" – Wordgathering

"They Call Me Wheelchair Bound" – Wordgathering

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