transition 13 was published in summer 1928. Edited by Eugene Jolas with associate editor Robert Sage and contributing editors Elliott Paul and Matthew Josephson.

Unlike the previous twelve issues which implicitly grouped its materials into general literary categories (fiction, poetry, art, essays, etc.), this and subsequent issues did not. Poetry follows fiction follows painting follows photography follows fiction follows poetry—etc. etc. Note that, as in previous issues, the art pages are not numbered.

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Contents of Issue 13

Cover art: Pablo Picasso

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 5

William Closson Emory - Love in the West: A Scenario - 33

Archibald Mac Leish - And Forty Second Street - 42

Peter Neagoe - A Segment of the Whole - 44

Gertrude Stein - Descriptions of Literature - 50

Malcolm Cowley - Seven O’Clock - 54

William Carlos Williams - Improvisations - 55

— That Poem Jayjay - 55

— wellroundedthighs - 56

— The Dead Grow - 57

Man Ray - Film

— Film

Walter Lowenfels - Solstice - 59

Kay Boyle - Written for Royalty (Extract from a novel) - 60

Stuart Gilbert - A Prolegomenon to Work in Progress - 65

Eugene Jolas - Almanach - 71

Leigh Hoffman - Catastrophe - 76

E. Atget - A Photograph

New York: 1928, A Group Manifestation - feat. Will Bray, Slater Brown, Kenneth Burke, Robert M. Coates, Malcolm Cowley, Walter S. Hankel, Matthew Josephson, H.L. Mannikin - 83

Laura Riding - Ding-donging - 105

—All Nothing, Nothing - 106

Man Ray - Paris Machine Shop

Robert Sage - Spectral Moorings - 109

Gertrude Stein - An Instant Answer or a Hundred Prominent Men - 118

Guy Urquhart - The Silver Bull - 131

Eugen Jolas - Walk Through Cosmopolis - 133

Picasso - 1905

— 1908

— 1914

— 1906

— 1921

— 1925

Elliot Paul - The Work of Pablo Picasso - 139

A.Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. - Antheil & Stravinski - 142

Archibald Craig - Summer Time - 145

— You Say It’s Winter - 146

Murray Godwin - A Day in the Life of a Robot: A prose pantomime in four parts - 148

— Journey - 154

— Job - 159

— Eventide - 166

Graeme Taylor - Deaf-Mute - 172

Eugene Jolas - Daily Graphic - 174

“Mr. Mencken Tells Europe All About U.S. Literature” - 176

Howard Weeks - Portrait - 177

Lustgarten and Christkind - Ralph Manheim - 179

Kay Boyle - The United States - 186

— Letter to Archibald Craig - 188

Bonita Toff - Ovals - 191

Man Ray - André Breton (a photograph)

John Herrmann - The Mechanics of Book Production - 193

Cary Ross - Aztec - 196

Whit Burnett - Home Edition: A Scenario - 199

Man Ray - New York: 1920

Eugene Jolas - The Friend - 205

Laura Riding - Mademoiselle Comet - 207

Frank Budgen - The Work in Progress of James Joyce and Old Norse Poetry - 209

Blanche Matthias - Pray-Whispers Wash the Earth

Emily Holmes Coleman - The Wren’s Nest - 215

Paul Bowles - Entity - 219

Ludwig Lewisohn - The Pained Lady - 221

Katherine Anne Porter - Magic - 229

Richard Aldrich - Mandara - 232

Berenice Abbott - George Antheil (photograph)

William Carlos Williams - George Antheil and the Cantilene Critics: A Note on the First Performance of Antheil’s music in New York City; April 10-1927 - 237

Genevieve Taggard - Letter from Greenwich Village - 241

Bernard Smith - American Letter - 245

Eugene Jolas - Inquiry Among European Writers into the Spirit of America - 248 (responses below)

— Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes - 249

— Benjamin Péret - 250

— André Gaillard - 250

— Gottfried Benn - 251

— Marcel Brion - 252

— Tristan Tzara - 252

— W. Mayr - 253

— Pierre Macorlan - 245

— Jules Romains - 245

— Leon Bazalgette - 255

— Ivan Goll - 255

— Max Rychner - 256

— Theo van Dœsburg - 259

— Bernard Fay - 260

— Luc Durtain - 261

— M. Seuphor - 262

— Philippe Soupault - 262

— Ren Lalou - 264

— Georges Hugnet - 265

— Joseph Delteil - 266

— Jean-George Auriol - 267

— Henry Poulaille - 268

— Ferdand Divoire - 269

— Regis Michaud - 269

Extra Material:

Glossary - 271 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)

Eugene Jolas - Transatlantic Letter - 277