Title: A triumph of insight, sympathy, craft
Product review: Daisy Aldan was herself an extraordinary poet, but she was also a translator from several languages, a small-press publisher, a high school teacher (at the NYC High School of the Arts, with Harvey Fierstein and Gerard Malanga among her students), and a promoter of the poetry (and visual arts) of others, both before they were known and long after they had died.Daisy did great service to Whitman and to Poe in her public lectures, but Mallarme was her favorite. She was a serious esotericist as well, and understood the inner meanings of his poems remarkably. Thus in translating them she did not worry at the impossible task of mirroring the surface, but went to core of his poems and brought them into English from that level. Her mother was an actress, and Daisy did not neglect the dramatic quality of Mallarme.No translation could serve you better.
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