If I Write You this Poem, Will You Make it Fly: A Book of Birds and Verse Forms

by Simeon Dumdum Jr.

"Work of imagination, work of art, and work of scholarship, all three! Most valuable for practicing poets, teachers, the general public with interest in poetry, bird lovers, environmentalists. It has wit, it has force—in a word, élan; it has the light and depth of 'our own scene so fair'—our landscape and the bird creatures there which subtly transfigure in our songs and poems our own thoughts and feelings." —Gemino H. Abad

Genres: Poetry

159 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Simeon Dumdum, Jr. is a Regional Trial Court Executive Judge in Cebu City, The Philippines, and a published poet. He once studied for the priesthood in Galway, Ireland, but left the seminary to take up law. After years of practicing law, he was appointed Regional Trial Court judge in Cebu. He won prizes for his poetry, which he has published and read abroad.

He has published five books - The Gift of Sleep (poems), Third World Opera (poems), Love in the Time of the Camera (essays), Selected Poems and New (poems), and My Pledge of Love Cannot be Broken (essays). He won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for English poetry four times, and the Manila Critics Circle's National Book Award three times. In 2005, he received a medallion for writing the best decision in a criminal case, second level courts, in the Judicial Excellence Awards sponsored by the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

Reviews

[Stuart Cooke · Rating 1 out of 5]

A perfect example of what goes wrong when the form smothers the content.