John AnsonJohn Anson was born in 1936 in San Francisco. He attended UC Berkeley where he earned his B.A. in English and Classics, his M.A. in Classics, and his Ph.D. in English. Subsequently, he taught there in the English Department from 1965 to 1991. Since ten he has worked as a psychologist, first as a therapist and currently as an expert witness testifying in habeas corpus hearings held for involuntarily hospitalized patients. In the seventies and eighties he regularly published his own poetry in a number of small literary magazines including Poetry, The Threepenny Review and Arizona Quarterly, and Robert Barth issued a chapbook of his sonnets, A Family Album. Dos Madres Press published Anson's collection of poetry and translations, TIME PIECES, in 2014, as well as his translation of LES TROPHÉES by José-Maria de Heredia in 2013. Read More Read Less