Now, in the third year of the twenty-first century, yet another poet of the Russian community abroad has made her voice be heard. Her first collection of verse is now in your hands, esteemed reader. Welcome to the pages of All that is Dear to my Heart

Poet Alexandra Podverbnaya-Doren prepared this collection for publication. She is a Californian not by birth but by dint of a life spent here; she is an American citizen, one who writes and sings in Russian. The poet wrote whatever inspiration whispered to her heart, and it is undoubtedly the same inspiration that shone upon poets of the past and continues to stir their souls in our hectic days.