Who is Professor Anthony Domestico’s Favorite Author to Teach?
Learn more in a recent interview conducted by the New York Review of Books.
On the occasion of Associate Professor of Literature Anthony Domestico’s recent review of Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt by Willard Spiegelman, the New York Review of Books delved into the reviewer himself in ‘But Not Yet,’ a Q+A that provides insight into the authors he loves to teach.
Enjoy a preview…
“But another of my favorite writers, Elizabeth Bishop, is a joy to talk about in class.
“Her poems can seem uncomplicated—in this one, a speaker describes a fish; in that one, a speaker goes to a gas station—and students don’t feel particularly intimidated by them.
“And yet the poems are so masterfully composed, so subtle in their tonal and perspectival shifts, that they reward endless unpacking.”