Anthony DiMatteo

My poetry addresses wilderness, love and antiquity as well as my experiences living in a group home as a supervisor of ten boys for many years. I write free and formal verse. I've also written a score of essays on Renaissance literature, mostly on Shakespeare, investigating how myth and politics intertwine in his plays and poetry. I'm also a Latin scholar, having translated the most popular treatise on classical iconography and myth of the 16th century, a tome that influenced poets and painters of the Renaissance. All my work, as poet, scholar and a professor of writing, art, design, and English literature, attempts to recuperate and advance a renaissance vision and promise of a new world coming into being - in other words, a hopeless, battle-scarred idealist passionately committed to a nearly lost harmonious view of human nature.