Rome, Pedestrians Beware! A book reading with author, Anthony Geist, and photographer, Adam L. Weintraub

Rome, Pedestrians Beware! A book reading with author, Anthony Geist, and photographer, Adam L. Weintraub

Sunday, February 16, 2025
4 – 6 pm

Free/ w RSVP

Author Anthony Geist, along with photographer Adam L. Weintraub, will read and present excerpts from their new book, Rome: Pedestrians Beware, and discuss their process and collaboration: from inception and vision to tackling the realities of photographing an intricately particular project in a foreign country. There will be a slideshow and conversation, and the opportunity to get one of the limited edition books.

After his long exile in France and Argentina following the Spanish Civil War, Rafael Alberti’s final home in exile was Rome, where he wrote Roma: Peligro Para Caminantes (Rome: Pedestrians Beware). There, Romulus and Remus sneak down to the Tiber to suckle on feral cats, a jack of all trades pisses on the poet’s shoes, whistling as he walks away, and in the Campo de’ Fiori the poet compares sonnets with the wandering spirit of Giuseppe Belli, all in the shadow of the glory of Rome’s imperial ruins.

This unique trilingual edition features exquisite and nuanced translations in English and Italian from the original Spanish by Anthony Geist and Giuseppe Leporace. It also includes visually evocative photographs of contemporary Rome by former PCNW Board Director Adam L. Weintraub.

Image credit: Adam L. Weintraub