Saxophones Were Banned in Albania

In Saxophones Were Banned in Albania Dubroff responds with frankness and passion to the events of our time as well as to those in the past who fought on behalf of the needs of all human beings. Her lyrical poems about the arts and artists remind or alert us to the way in which these gifts can enrich and strengthen our faith in and commitment to the life within and around us.. A former, decades-long professional social worker, Dubroff has also been widely published for some time as both a poet and translator of poetry.She has received grants from the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Art Councils and was recently for a second time the showcased poet at the N. H. Poet Laureate s website. Of her 2004 volume of translations of the great French poet, Ren Char the first such work by a single U.S. translator in thirty years-- it was said, One cannot read Ren Char without being changed. And one cannot read these translations without realizing that Dubroff s fine-tuned renderings have preserved the sensibility and the scope of the man. Here poet and translator are one. Of the 2008 collection of her own poems, The One Remaining Star, a reviewer wrote, Dubroff takes a thought-provoking look at life from different perspectives. The poems are engaging and each reading is more enriching than the last.