The Convenience of War

Ken Sutton

POETRY

“Ken Sutton’s The Convenience of War is a moving tribute to veterans who have fought in many of our country’s wars. His different narrators rarely flinch from revealing the inconvenient truths of war. “War needs men like fire needs kindling,” as one narrator says. In these stories, the survivors of war vacillate between wanting to remember and wanting to forget their ordeals, but in the end opt for remembering so that others have a better understanding of what wars actually entail.” Henry Hart, - Poet Laureate of Virginia