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A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original yoga on fine art and battle might transform the way you see the planet - and which makes all the difference. "How to live in the face of much hurting? What difference is one able to person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?" Through a stunning mixture of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles provides an impassioned security of life lived by serenity and principle. It really is a literary collage with an immediate trust at its key: that fine art might offer tools for remaking the planet. In Get Your Weapons, Sentilles instructs the true reports of Howard, a conscientious objector during World Conflict II, and A long way, a former jail safeguard at Abu Ghraib, and along the way she challenges typical thinking about how battle is waged, observed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create fine art in response to battle: Howard creates a violin; A long way paints portraits of detainees. With echoes of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Sentilles investigates images of violence from the time of slavery to the drone time. In doing this, she wrestles with a few of our most profound questions: Exactly what does it take to encourage compassion? What impact is one able to person have? How should we react to violence when it feels like it can not be stopped? Attract Your Weapons stirs and confronts, disturbs and illuminates.
