Poetry. Translated from the French by Peter Manson. THE POEMS IN VERSE is Peter Manson's translation of The Po#65533;sies of St#65533;phane Mallarm#65533;. Long overshadowed by Mallarm#65533;'s theoretical writings and by his legendary visual poem "Un coup de D#65533;s jamais n'abolira le Hasard," the Po#65533;sies are lyrics of a uniquely prescient and generative modernity. Grounded in a scrupulous sounding of the complex ambiguities of the original poems, Manson's English translations draw on the resources of the most innovative poetries of our own time--these may be the first translations really to trust the English language to bear the full weight of Mallarm#65533;an complexity. With THE POEMS IN VERSE, Mallarm#65533;'s voice is at last brought back, with all its incisive strangeness, into the conversation it started a hundred and fifty years ago, called contemporary poetry.