#will stone

[footballmakesmen]

[majestativa]

Her memory [...] his cult of her.

— GEORGES RODENBACH ⚜️ Bruges-la-Morte, transl. by Mike Mitchell & Will Stone, (2005)

[lifeinpoetry]

And if the angel says: Do you know life? / Then I must say: Life devours

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Irschenhausen, September 1914, Poems to Night, tr. Will Stone

[moviesframes]

Little Dixie (2023)

Directed by John Swab

Cinematography by Will Stone

[kitchen-light]

Poetry translation then is much more that just finding the right word for meaning. The machine faces a mountain and the slopes are of unstable scree.

Will Stone, from his essay “The Machine Stops - Poetry’s Resistance to Artificial Intelligence”, published in Modern Poetry In Translation, No.3, 2021

[elizabethanism]

“Self Portrait” - Leon Spillaert

Léon Spilliaert, The Gust of Wind, 1904

"He takes what he needs from Munch, Khnopff, Rops, Van Gogh, carving out his own niche, installing himself as a loner by the North Sea." - Will Stone

Léon Spilliaert Self-portrait in front of a mirror, 1908

[majestativa]

Morose evenings! He needed that voice, still drank its dark waves.

— Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte, transl. by Mike Mitchell & Will Stone, (2005)