The beauty will rescue the world, the art is the beauty of this world. The poetry is the kind of the art. The poetry rescued me. This book is my Verse Therapy.

Anna M. Vincent, born in Vienna (Austria), lived for 15 years in Berlin (East and West) and 8 years in Moscow (Russia).

A Master of Arts in Teaching and Linguistics - Russian, German, Bulgarian (Humboldt University, Berlin 1996), Anna from 1992 to 1997 worked as a translator and language instructor at various language centers of East and West Berlin, as well as an associate journalist for a West German TV Station (SAT1).

1997 saw Anna move to the USA, where she learned English (today over 50 of her poems are written in English) and continues her career as a teacher and cultural advisor for Fortune 500 companies throughout the USA. Her name as an international consultant/interpreter/teacher is known in more than 9 states, including Washington D.C. (Pentagon).

Anna is a notarized translator (International Seal) of the Translation Association of Russia and an active member of the German-Russian Exchange Society.