Anthony DiMatteo

My poetry, essays, memoir and translations address wilderness, love, antiquity and Renaissance literature especially Shakespeare. My memoir Home Boys draws loosely on my experiences living in a group home as a supervisor of ten boys for a decade. My poetry is in free and formal verse. My score of essays on Shakespeare investigate 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 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 committed to a nearly lost harmonious view of human nature and a democracy on the distant horizon we need to develop a culture and philosophy for.