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

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
L. Tihanyi - 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 Trakle - 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