Anthony Geist

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington (Seattle), Geist has taught previously at Princeton, 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. The School of Solitude (Swan Isle Press, 2015), his translation of the...See more

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington (Seattle), Geist has taught previously at Princeton, 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. The School of Solitude (Swan Isle Press, 2015), his translation of the Peruvian poet Luis Hernández, was a finalist for the PEN Prize for Best Book of Poetry in Translation in 2016, and was named one of the 100 Must Reads of Latin American literature by BookRiot . He is currently at work on an illustrated, trilingual edition of Rafael Alberti's Roma, peligro para caminantes . More recently he has begun working in visual studies, including photo-essays, art exhibits and documentary film. In 2016 he was knighted with the rank of Cruz de Oficial in the Order of Isabella the Catholic Queen. He considers himself fortunate that two of his great passions--poetry and the Spanish Civil War--are also his profession. See less