transition 12 was published in March 1928. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul with associate editor Robert Sage.
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Contents of Issue 12
Fiction:
James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 7
André Breton (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Nadja (Opening Chapter) - 28
Gertrude Stein - Dan Raffel a Nephew - 51
Benjamin Péret (trans. Elliot Paul) - In a Clinch - 54
Laura Riding - Hungry to Hear - 62
Marcel Noll (trans. Maria Jolas) - From a Note Book - 63
Morley Callaghan - A Country Passion - 70
Raymond Roussel (trans. Maria Jolas) - From: African Impressions - 81
Peter Neagos - Kaleidoscope - 87
Kathleen Cannell - The Money - 92
Painting:
André Masson - The Knife
Giorgio de Chirico - L’Arc des Echelles Noires
Man Ray - Painting
Francis Picabia - Painting
Poetry:
Paul Eluard (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Knowledge Prohibited - 109
Pierre Unik (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Place Vendome - 113
James Daly - Two Walkers - 114
Jacques Baron (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Time O strange life far off comrade… - 115
Stanley Burnshaw - Darkness and Eyes - 118
Walter Lowenfels - Creed - 119
Paul Bowles - Spire Song - 120
Carl Rakosi - Dolce Padre and Ephebus - 123
— The Founding of New Hampshire - 124
M.G. Shelley - Poème Méchanique - 125
Charles Norman - Calendars - 128
— Orchards of Quiet - 128
Allen Tate - For a Dead Citizen - 129
Allen Tate - Mr. Pope - 130
Georgette Camille (trans. Maria Jolas) - The Accursed - 131
Edward Robbin - Harvest - 132
René Laporte (trans. Maria Jolas) - A Little Later - 133
Esther Kaufman - Full-Blown - 134
Evan Shipman - Premonition - 135
— Arrows - 136
— Beach Desolation - 137
Essays, etc.:
Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul - A Review [of year of transition] - 139
Roger Vitrac (trans. Kathleen Cannell) - Raymond Roussel - 148
Marcel Brion (trans. Robert Sage) - The Idea of Time in the Work of James Joyce - 163
A Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. - Textighter Eye-Ploy or Hothouse Bromidick? - 171
Syd S. Salt - Antheil and America - 176
John Herrman - And then the (Bridge) Failed - 178
Extra Material:
Glossary - 179 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)
Index to Transition, Volume 1, (Numbers 1-12) - 185