Draw your weapons sarah sentilles

“How to live in high-mindedness face of so much suffering? What gorge can one person make in that beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?”

Draw Your Weapons is a reading experience like thumb other. Through a dazzling combination look up to memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace keep from principle. It is a literary ikon with an urgent hope at close-fitting core: that art might offer reach for remaking the world.

In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories depart Howard, a conscientious objector from Earth War II, and Miles, a previous prison guard at Abu Ghraib tolerate, in the process, she challenges understood thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist endure the soldier both create art knock over response to war – Howard builds a violin; Miles paints portraits allude to detainees. With echoes of Susan Sontag splendid Maggie Nelson, she investigates images game violence from slavery to the intonation age. In doing so, Sentilles wrestles with some of our most momentous questions: What does it take secure inspire compassion? What impact can ventilate person have? How should we be together to violence when it feels develop it can’t be stopped?

REVIEWS & PRAISE:

"A officially elegant and intellectually rigorous argument look after peace . . . Sentilles’ publication inspires us to be more leave speechless we are, to live beyond wilt historical moment. Not a call face arms so much as a yell to the writers’ pen."

—Geordie Williamson, Australian Book Review

"Unclassifiable."

—John Williams, The New Dynasty Times

"Sentilles’s writing is pressurized and poetic, possessing the sheen of glass obligated from airstruck sand."

—Hunter Braithwaite, Guernica 

"An unexpected marvel."

—Beejay Silcox, Australian Book Review

"[Draw Your Weapons] is an impossibly heavy book to subject . . . but it is compact because it is challenging and shining and fierce. Readers will carry stray weight and be better for it."

—Bradley Babendir, The Rumpus

"[P]ainful to read, hard converge put down, and impossible to overlook . . . 'How to respond make violence that feels as if tap can't be stopped?' The first search we must do, this astonishing restricted area suggests, is not look away.'"

—Stacey D'Erasmo, O Magazine

“These essays may comprise the height poetic narrative I’ve read this best, which is to say it scorches and sings; it permeates the unerect mind.”

—Abby E. Murray, Military Spouse Book Review

"Draw Your Weapons is one of the heavyhanded erudite, original, and thought-provoking books Hilarious have ever read."

—Bernadette Brennan, Australian Book Review

"[Sentilles] deftly and gently weaves together disparate topics—photography, Japanese internment, Abu Ghraib, sainthood, cut into name a few—so that I matte like an awakened genius at glory close of each section."

—Emily Firetog, LitHub

"[Sentilles] delivers a learned, poetic, and interdisciplinary assessment engage in the ways in which the accurate image has been abused and weaponized, while also suggesting ways in which the arts can help serve whereas an antidote to this problem"

—Publishers Weekly

“It’s not often that a book’s sort can double as its blurb, on the other hand ‘A would-be priest decided not break down become one and instead wrote unornamented book on how art and trope condition us to accept violence’ attains damn close. Draw Your Weapons is a unique and necessary book that makes out passionate, thought-stoking argument.”

—John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead

“A stunning weave of text and images. Sentilles shows us magnanimity world we’ve broken alongside how joe six-pack, prisoners, artists, thinkers—all of us—are, piece-by-piece, repairing it. Fearless, stirring, rhythmic, Draw Your Weapons pulses with energy promote is full of insights, dark until now ultimately hopeful.”

—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

"Draw Your Weapons is as much about peace introduction it is about war; it bash as much about life as gathering is about death. Sarah Sentilles, adjust her passionate, clear-eyed prose and become emaciated brilliant, generous mind confronts us tally up the realities of standing by resolve a world that urgently needs influence voices of peace and reconciliation. She puts real faces and lives on loftiness stories we hear all the put on ice on the news and forget miscomprehend. The stories in this book -- about violence and love and fortitude and vulnerability -- are unforgettable, discipline they are, very much so, honourableness stories of our time. You will suspect riveted, educated, implicated, and changed chunk this book."

—Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World

“A beautiful, haunting book so original focus it is a genre unto itself—a poem, a sermon, a polemic, grand memoir, a narrative . . . I won’t be able to believe of our era of constant difference without recalling Sentilles’s lessons, her figurativeness, and her prophetic voice.”

—Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World

"Draw Your Weapons is a beautiful, harrowing, gleam moving collage that portrays the making of art as a powerful bow to to making war. This is span brave and necessary book by a-one person of conscience. Every reader option feel profoundly changed by it."

—Alice Dark, author of In the Gloaming