Aimless Walk, Faithful River/The Poet Learns to Dance, the Dancer Learns to Write a Poem

by Simeon Dumdum Jr.

In the tradition of the great Romantic poets, Simeon Dumdum Jr.’s Aimless Walk, Faithful River is a delicious meandering through lush poetic landscapes in a relentless search for those wellsprings that make us fully human and fully alive. Blending his superb lyrical and narrative gifts with an effortless mastery of poetic forms, Dumdum meditates on the consolations of nature, the transience of beauty, the accidental pleasures of travel, love and loss, the wisdom of age, the unguarded tenderness of children, religion and politics.

144 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2017

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.