Anthony L. Geist

Anthony L. Geist is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington (Seattle). Geist has taught previously at Princeton, the University of Texas (San Antonio), and Dartmouth. He has published widely on twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American poetry, and has translated the Spanish poets Jorge Guillén, Federico García Lorca, Álvaro Salvador, Luis García Montero and Luis Muñoz, as well as the Peruvian Edgar O’Hara. He is currently at work on an illustrated, trilingual edition of Rafael Alberti’s Roma, peligro para caminantes [Rome, danger for walkers]. More recently he has begun working in visual studies, including photoessays, art exhibits and documentary film. He considers himself fortunate that two of his great passions–poetry and the Spanish Civil War—are also his profession.