transition 1 was published in April 1927. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul.

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Contents of Issue 1

Fiction:

James Joyce - Opening Pages of a Work in Progress - 9

Kay Boyle - Theme - 31

Cark Sternheim - Busekow - 36

F. Boillot - Chapter from “The Methodical Study of Literature” - 57

Hjalmar Söderberg - The Artichoke - 61

Gertrude Stein - An Elucidation - 65

Marcel Jouhandeau - Madeleine the Taciturn - 79

Robert M. Coates - Conversations No. 7 - 83

Ludwig Lewisohn - The Defeated - 85

Painting:

Max Ernst - Mer et Oiseau - 99

L. Tihanyi - Portrait of M. Bôlôni - 100

— Composition - 101

Pavel Tselitsieff - Painting - 102

Poetry:

Hart Crane - O Carib Isle! - 101

Robert Desnos - The Dove of the Ark - 103

Robert Desnos - I’ve Dreamed so Much About You - 104

Paul Eldridge - Wang Peng, Famous Sociologist, Suggests to the Emperor the only Possible Means of Improving the People of the Empire - 106

Paul Eldridge - Sing Pu Answers His Friend, Who Asked Him How to Acquire Perfect Happiness - 106

Virgil Geddes - To All the Men Under Tall Silk Hats; To the Women Under Soft, Pink Gowns - 107

Virgil Geddes - To the Monks of the Imperishable Song - 109

André Gide - Roundelay of the Pomegranate - 111

Bravig Imbs - The Wind Was There - 116

Bravig Imbs - Sleep - 118

R. Ellsworth Larsson - Correspondence, Chiefly Concerning Spring - 119

Else Lasker-Schüler - A Song - 123

Archibald MacLeish - Signature Anonyme - 124

Marcel Noll - Two Poems - 126

Evan Shipman - Cry Heard in the Night - 127

Philippe Soupault - Say It with Music - 129

Georg Trakl - Rosary Songs - 131

Extra Material:

The Editors - Introduction - 135

Kay Boyle - Book Review: “In the American Grain” - 139

Robert Sage - Book Review: “Honey Rather than Wine” - 142

Elliot Paul - Zukunftsmusik [Review of George Antheil’s recent work] - 147

Open Letter - Stop, Thief! - 156

Gertrude Stein - An Elucidation - Supplement: 1-16