The balcony hovers right over the information desk where Ms. Schiff, a noted poet and English professor, worked from 1995 to 2000, greeting and directing museum visitors.
“My boss would stand up there and look down to make sure we were smiling,” Ms. Schiff said.
On Tuesday, Ms. Schiff published her fourth book of poetry, “Information Desk: An Epic,” about her five years at the museum, off and on.
Her last book, “A Woman of Property,” includes the poem “Lion Felling a Bull,” about a marble fragment from the Met.
But her interviewer gave her a binder of other open positions, and soon she started at the information desk.
Persons:
Robyn Schiff, Schiff, “, Ms, Schiff’s, Cartier, ”, Sarah Lawrence, temping, didn’t
Organizations:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tiffany Studios
Locations:
“ Worth, ”, New Jersey, New York City