The English translation, by D. G. Jones, of Catégoriques un deux et trois (1986), a book of poems by Normand de Bellefeuille, is examined through the reflections proposed by Arno Renken, among others, on the question of the common rejection of a translation on the grounds of its non-identity with the original. Many translation choices made by Jones in Categorics one two & three (1992) are analyzed in order to bring into light the combined effects these various transpositions produce on the reader of the English version.