I just returned from a weekend conference at Fishtrap, in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon. The conference was celebrating the centennial of William Stafford’s birth, and there was a fair amount of conversation on war and peace, and the complex roles they play in our society. I found myself thinking and speaking the words that I wrote when the book first came out last October. Some things bear repeating. . . .

Detail from Glen Coffield’s Ultimatum.