Daniel J. Weeks's published collections of poems include X Poems (Blast Press, 1990), Ancestral Songs (Libra Publishers, Inc., 1992), Indignities (Mellen Poetry Press, 1999), and Characters (Blast Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in The Cimarron Review, The Roanoke Review Mudfish, Fox Cry, Zone 3, SLANT, Voices International, Fennel Stalk, Mobius, The Sulphur River Poetry Review, The Tucumcari Review, and many other publications. Weeks lives in Eatontown, N.J., with his wife, Jackie, and their two children, Jared and Rachel.

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My purpose in making the translations which follow was simply to better understand these important poems and to practice reading French. In the process, I consulted some other translations, notably Roger Fry's beautiful work on Mallarme, some translations of other Symbolist poets by C.F. MacIntyre, and the prose translations Carol Clark made of Baudelaire. I decided to do a poetic translation of my own whenever the French original touched an emotional chord for me and when I thought I could contribute something beyond what others had already done in their English renderings."

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