#bianca stone

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”

[havingapoemwithyou]

ones who got away with it by Bianca Stone

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE WE ARE DOOMED. YOU WILL NEVER BE LOVELIER THAN YOU ARE NOW. WE WILL NEVER BE HERE AGAIN."

Homer The Iliad // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-2024) cr. Gege Akutami // Mitski I'm Your Man // Alien Stage (2022-) cr. VIVINOS & QMENG // Wisława Szymborska The Onion // Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021) dir. Leigh Janiak // Mitski Once More to See You // Arcane: League of Legends (2021-2024) // Ethel Cain Wrestling in Dirt Pits // 怪物 Monster (2023) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // unknown // Banana Fish (2018) dir. Hiroko Utsumi // Bianca Stone Artichokes // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay // NANA (2006-2007) dir. Morio Asaka // Coldplay Sparks // 刻在你心底的名字 Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) dir. Patrick Kuang-Hui Liu // Julia de Burgos That You Love Me In Green // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Margaret Atwood Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother

[firstfullmoon]

Bianca Stone, “The Future Is Here,” in Someone Else’s Wedding Vows

[majestativa]

Beloved? […] you are too deep inside me, wallpapered in my subconscious.

— Bianca Stone, What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems, (2022)

[hsslilly-blog]

there's a strange exhilaration in such total detestation!!!!!!

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a peek at Poetry Comics: from the Book of Hours by Bianca Stone. Published in 2016 in Warrensburg, Missouri by Pleiades Press, this 79-page collection of Stone’s work stretches the comic medium in a series of intimate and emotionally raw illustrations and panels. Poetry comics (a hybrid, experimental form of both mediums that can be seen in the work of artists such as Julie Delporte, Sommer Browning, and Anders Brekhus Nilsen among others) draw "from the syntax of comics, images, panels, speech balloons, and so on, in order to produce a literary or artistic experience akin to that of traditional poetry." As an unvarnished autobiographical comic with feminist undertones, it is in the lineage of artists like Aline Kominsky-Crumb. But Stone’s poetic approach, which informs her artistic style as well as her writing, injects an unruly tone of existential grappling that echos the illustrations and text of artists more akin to William Blake. 

Pleiades Press is based at the University of Central Missouri. Bianca Stone's work has been published in magazines like The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. Her poetry collection What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry. Her other books include The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018) and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014). In 2012 she collaborated with Anne Carson to illustrate her translation of Antigonick.

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--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[aliendxde]

i love ragging on his fur coat as if i’m not the one who designed it

[wellconstructedsentences]

I'd better bring her back right. The whole house smells of cinnamon and dust.

Making Apple Sauce with My Dead Grandmother by Bianca Stone

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Mary Magdalene”

[Text ID: “you are too deep inside me. / Wallpapered in my subconscious.”]

[havingapoemwithyou]

reading a science article on the airplane to JFK by Bianca Stone

[warningsine]

You left your apartment. I did. For me?

[firstfullmoon]

Bianca Stone, from “Practicing Vigilance,” in Someone Else’s Wedding Vows

[majestativa]

Holy and obscene; unmentionable.

— Bianca Stone, What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems, (2022)

[hsslilly-blog]

rip her to shreds!

[deer-daughterx]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Mary Magdalene”