{"product_id":"throw-down-your-weapons-blake-cateris-9781764042802","title":"Throw Down Your Weapons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first collection ever released from singer\/songwriter Blake Cateris, Throw Down Your Weapons is a reflection of, and rumination on, life. A collection of pieces about many themes and ideas all at once; among them music, creating, art, growing up, falling-in and out of-love with yourself, the world around you, and other things and people that you hold dear - it's about wants, needs, art and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The true aspiration of art-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshould be to reduce the need for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor it to crawl through our capillaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand imbue our very being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eso that we may feel its absence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These pieces of poetry and prose bound together in this here collections are a mosaic of meanderings that an inherently hyperactive mind had through a perplexing and unprecedented time, locked up with nowhere to go and nothing to do. My aim with them is to stoke the embers of thought that bristle in your brain, to encourage discussion and the exploration of ideas and feelings. They are intentionally non-inflammatory-there is enough blind, conditioned and propagandised hatred in the world, I don't believe there is any need for me to contribute to or perpetuate this.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Let's be gallant, let's be gracious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elet's be mentors and leaders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elet's be every little thing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat our younger selves needed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blake Cateris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1764042808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781764042802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blake Cateris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.24d","brand":"Blake Cateris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519333380351,"sku":"9781764042802","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac843bc8-7b4c-44dc-bc84-dd2d807f775e.jpg?v=1778737281","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/throw-down-your-weapons-blake-cateris-9781764042802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}