The One Remaining Star, Poems by Susanne Dubroff
The sensual poems of Susanne Dubroff’s The One Remaining Star are as palpable as the objects they invoke:
Locked in the grey
canvas backpack, nobly holding its juices,
burst twice in enticing diameters,
the way my father might have
peeled, then cored and quartered,
handing out love, daily my apple,
my ever absent present.
Sample Poems by Susanne Dubroff
Praise for Susanne Dubroff’s Earlier Work
“Susanne Dubroff does a very fine job of bringing into English the strange and mountainous poems of René Char. A single stanza of his poems may bring together the bird of prey in flight, sleepless horizons, and ‘the soles of a bricklayer’s boots.’ It takes great skill to follow these mysterious turns.”—Robert Bly
“Out of his couageous and terrible experience in France in World War II, René Char. created a poetic style not of realistic autobiographical lyric but of metamorphic inventiveness, impassioned symbolizing, and an intimate and sometimes surreal urgency. Against terror, Char set love. Dubroff’s translations of Char’s work are like a lens brought to our own poetry from afar, to help us see more of the possibilities of poetry in general and to offer us a sample of Char’s ways of seeing, thinking and feeling which still seem new.”—Reginald Gibbons
Susanne Dubroff's translations, as well as her own poems, have been published in numerous journals and magazines. She has also taught literature courses and led poetry workshops. She is the author of René Char: This Smoke that Carried Us, selected translations of the French poet's work.
ISBN 978-1934999080, 104 pages, $17.00
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