Iron Harp: Poems

Thomas Fitzsimmons went into World War II as an underage merchant seaman just after Pearl Harbor and was discharged from the USAAF just after Hiroshima. "Iron Harp" is a book about the memories, hard and sweet, which linger throughout a lifetime. One man's centuryfrom a depressed New England mill-town in the 1920s, through the spirit-splintering insanities of World War II, to renewal in love, and on to glimpses of grace in Japan, along the Mediterranean, and in the high desert of New Mexico. Many of these poems are poignant evocations of battle and its emotional aftermath and leave the reader shuddering as to the undeniable folly of war.Thomas Fitzsimmons is the author of 'Iron Harp: Poems', published 1999 under ISBN 9781888809190 and ISBN 1888809191.