The poems in this volume address, with affection, humor, tenderness, and sorrow, the ordinary arrivals and departures that make up a life; our intimate relationship with the natural world; matters of injustice; aging, death and immortality; and the "breath-stealing, pulse-thumping, teeming, sprawling, 3-D Technicolor extravaganza of our limitless luminous life."

Veterans of recent conflicts describe their individual journeys from raw recruit to war resister in this collection of testimonials. Although it is not well publicized, the long tradition of refusing to fight unjust wars continues today within the American military. The stories in this book provide an intimate, honest look at the personal transformation of each of these young people and at the same time constitute a powerful argument against militarization and endless war. Also included are exclusive interviews with Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg addressing the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan and the role civilian and GI resistance plays in bringing the troops home.

When Buff Whitman-Bradley was diagnosed with cancer and underwent radical neck surgery and radiation treatment, he was fortunate to have loving family members and friends to accompany and support him throughout his ordeal. He also had poetry. He wrote the poems in this book as one way of "hanging on to the tail of the kite."