num_pages: 120
description: Minefield Children is a collection of poems ranging in mood from gentle lyricism to dark horror. The voices of Holocaust survivors, madmen, children, lovers and the dying mingle in its pages. The view of life expressed is dark, yet relieved by tender moments of love and fragile hope. The title of the collection refers to children who were used during a recent war to detonate mines in fields. They were made to walk over these fields to clear a path for soldiers whose lives were deemed more valuable than their own. The children were told they would go to heaven immediately if they stepped on a mine. Many mines were detonated. Minefield Children will haunt you, will move you to tears, and will cut through the prose of your life into the poetry of your heart.
language: English
title: Minefield Children
titlecomplete: Minefield Children
publisher: Xlibris Corp