This work highlights America's leading poetic visions concerning the horrors of war-and alternatives to war-during the classic era of this genre, 1950-2000. Dr. Richard Sharp's selection, paired with his expert commentary, highlights poets of conscience whose immortal poems point the way beyond U.S. military aggression and the threat of nuclear annihilation. This work selects the greatest poems of this classic period in order to create a testament and historical record of the poetic witness against aggressive violence supported by our democratic institutions, and serves as a paean that honors the immortal work of such intrepid writers as Denise Levertov, Robert Bly, W.S Merwin, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, William Everson, William Stafford, and many others.