Poetry. The poems in THE LAKES OF COMA range across America and beyond, taking in a wide array of subject matter - small town unrest, the realities of life in the city, human relationships, race, sex - and becomes an examination of modern-day society to the very limits of language itself. The writing is original, laden with vivid imagery and passages that form a unique mode of expression. This collection, Begnal's first, represents a poetic vision more than ten years in the making.