transition 25 was published in Fall 1936. Edited by Eugene Jolas with associate editor James Johnson Sweeney.

Cover art by Joan Miró.

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Contents of Issue 25

VERTIGRAL

Harry Brown - Analogies Over a Range - 7

Denis Devlin - You Don’t Know a Good Thing When You See It - 9

Pierre Guégen - Par Monts et par Veines - 10

Eugene Jolas - Incantation - 13

Norman McCaig - Two Poems - 14

Alphonso Reyes - Yerbas del Tarahumara - 16

J.L. Sweeney - Poems - 19

Dylan Thomas - Poem - 20

Charles Tracy - Mother of a Clown - 22

Oliver Wells - Let yourself go and throw the dice down hard… - 26

PARAMYTHS

Franz Kafka (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Metamorphosis - 27

THomas Newman - A Miniature Tale - 39

Dylan Thomas - The Mouse and the Woman - 43

Christopher Young - When the Words Comes to the Worst - 59

— Somebody was Dropping Old Iron on the Floor - 59

THE EYE

Piet Mondrian - Composition, 1935 - 61

L. Moholy-Nagy - Rho-Transparent, 1936 - 63

Ceasar Domela - Composition, 1935 - 65

Constantin Brancusi - Sculpture in Polished Brass - 67

Paul Klee - Metaorphose, 1924 - 69

Henri Matisse - Figure au Corselet, 1935 - 71

Dada: 1916-1936 (two texts on Dada)

— Hugo Ball (trans. Euegene Jolas) - Fragments from a Dada Diary - 73

— Richard Huelsenbeck (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Dada Lives - 77

Five Photographers

— M.A. Root - Portrait, daguerreotype, circa 1851 - 83

— Matthew B. Brody - The Fairy Wedding Group, 1863 - 85

— L. Moholy-Nagy - Fotogramme, 1929 - 87

— Francis Bruguiere - St. George and the Dragon - 89

— Henri Cartier-Bresson - Photograph - 91

Painting and Reality: A Discussion

— Aragon (trans. J.J.S.) - 93

— Fernand Léger (trans. Maria Jolas) - 104

— Le Corbusier (trans. from French stenographic redaction by Maria Jolas) - 109

— Aragon (trans. J.J.S.) - 119

INTER-RACIAL DOCUMENTS

Gustavo Barroso (trans. Maria Jolas) - Astronomic Myth (Boronos Indians of Brazil) - 125

Verso Mulatos

— Anonymous - Poem a la Luna Negra - 126

— Pales Matos - A paso lente - 126

Belgian Congo - Baluba fetishman’s head-dress - 127

Costa Rica, Guetare Culture - Figure in granite rock - 129

Luis E. Valcarel - There Are Several Americas - 131

Mexico, Aztec Culture - Childbirth goddess - 133

Mexico, Aztec Culture - Childbirth goddess (another angle) - 135

THE EAR

Henry Cowell - Scherzo - an unpublished score - 141

CINEMA

“Redes” or “Nets”- Screen stills from a film supervised by Paul Strand - 146

VERTIGRAL WORKSHOP

Hugo Ball (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Sound Poems (Zurich, 1915) - 159

New Caledonia - Ceremonial carving from a temple - 161

New Guinea - ritual mask - 163

Eugene Jolas - From a Dream Book

— Heartling Prayer on the Titantower - 165

— nightbyss - 167

— The Clock - 169

Justinus Kerner (trans. Eugene Jolas) - The Inner Language - 171

Fernando Ortiz (trans. and adapted by E. Canel)- Jitanjaforas in Cuba - 172

ARCHITECTURE

S. Giedion (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Construction and Aesthetics - 181

R. Maillart - Warehouse, Zürich Giesshuebel, second floor, 1909 - 185

— Bridge over the Tavanasa, 1905 - 185

— Salgina Tobel Bridge, Graubünden, 1929-1930 - 187

— Salgina Tobel Bridge under construction, 1925 - 189

— Schwandbach Bridge - 191

— Bridge over the Thur between Zürich and St. Gallen, 1934-1935

— Bridge over the Thur, 1935-1936