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