Letter from Fatima

By Simeon Dumdum Jr. (Author)

Quick Overview

Simeon Dumdum's Letter form Fatima is a moving narrative in rime royal that the poet achieves with quiet aplomb. "Born of memory, steadfast spouse of truth," it recounts a soul's pilgrimage for forgiveness, healing from cancer, and grace through Mary, Mother of God, as the poet travels from Rome to witness the canonization of Pedro Calungsod to various Marian shrines in Fatima, Lourdes and Paris at rue du Bac. In stories about Calungsod, the children at Fatima, Bernadette Soubirous, and Catherine Laboure, the poet realizes faith as "reason's wiser brother," so that the soul at last "finds God its real business... Something it should have done right at the start."-Gemino H. Abad

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aside from this, Simeon Dumdum Jr. has written seven books of poems, which have won him awards. He has three other books of essays. A retired judge, he lives with his wife Gingging, daughter Yeni and her husband Syd, and Eve an elderly dog, in Mohon, Talisay, Cebu.