In the first section of The Children’s War and Other Poems, Shaindel Beers turns to art created by child-survivors of war as source material. The first section uses the first person voice to imagine how these children would narrate their drawings and paintings. In one case, Beers quotes an interview with a child-artist as an epigraph for her poem about the artwork.
Roughly halfway through the book, Beers expands her focus to broader themes related to violence, and vulnerability, moving between first, second, and third person voices, from mythological subjects to present-day speakers. The second section includes quotes and lines from sources ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Camille Norton.
The poems are in free verse. The collection includes many persona poems.
In the “Notes” section, Beers cites the sources of the images behind the poems in the first section of the book.
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