Conflict is endemic to the human condition, war being its most terrible manifestation. These often wrenching poems reflect an enormous struggle between the author's celebration of fighting the good fight, and his repugnance of war; between what he believes is a solemn moral duty to fully engage "just war," and the sheer immoral squander that is all war. This intriguing volume also includes riffs on more mundane types of cultural conflict, real and imagined.