![]() ![]() ![]() Even as I devoured the book, I hobbled the entire time. ![]() I can’t decide if the structure of Sentilles’ essay collection is a technique to appropriately overwhelm the reader’s experience of war, or if it’s intended to sustain it, carry it as a tragedy we can manage, barely, on our shoulders. They read like poetry-the mark of an author who knows a reader’s ear. Draw Your Weapons consists of seventeen essays, but each is a carefully braided composition of vignettes, some as short as a single line while most are a third or half page. Murray (poet, professor, Army wife)ĭraw Your Weapons, the recent essay collection by critical theorist and scholar of religion Sarah Sentilles (Random House, July 2017), was in some ways an effortless read-I gulped it down in three sittings-and in others, a staggeringly difficult one.ĭown to its very structure, the book is set up to interact with the reader and simulate the overwhelming, constant intensity of violence. ![]()
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