William C. Wright (Bill) once an Ohio farmboy, then a musician,boxer, machinist, corporal in WW II, dairyman, has been working for peace and justice for eight decades w as a union organizer, marcher for fair wages and acceptance of cultural diversity, advocate for those igred by the system, fighter against oppression, and friend to all. Bill Wright has also been a poet all of those years and here is offered a life of poems. They are pointed and touching, full of memory detail, a fondness for the right word and rhythm, and an abiding love for his family and his wife Cris.