transition 6 was published in September 1927. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul.

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Contents of Issue 6

Fiction and Theatre:

Boris Pilniak (trans. Sofia Himmel) - That Which is Dead Calls Always - 9

Carl Sternheim (trans. Eugene Jolas) - A Pair of Drawers [a play] - 16

Elliot Paul - Enharmonics - 40

Robert M. Coates - In Memoriam - 47

Kay Boyle - Polar Bears and Others - 52

J.-M. Sollier (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Man Drinking Wine - 57

Henry Poulaille (trans. Faith Maris) - Poor - 60

Solita Solano - This Way Up - 68

Gertrude Stein - Studies in Conversation - 75

Virgil Geddes - The Stove - 79

Marcel Jouhandeau (trans. Maive Sage) - Dunois the Angel or ‘We Are Not Men of Pleasure’ - 82

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 87

Robert Desnos (trans. Elliot Paul) - Liberty or Love - 107

Painting:

Yves Tanguy - Landscape

Joan Miro - Drawing

Hans Arp - Arping

Man Ray - Section of Film

Poetry:

Archibald MacLeish - Vernissage - 115

— Birth of Eventually Venus - 116

— Poem - 117

— Project for an Aesthetic Sub-title: Moonlight of a Man - 118

—Poem Dedicated to the Advancement of Aviation - 119

Laura Riding - Love as a Love - 120

Serge Essenin (trans. Gusta Zimbalist-Jaryczower) - Moscow Dive - 125

André Gaillard (trans. Bravig Imbs) - Catching on Fire - 129

Lioubomir Mitzitch (trans. Alexander Rukavina) - Barbarogenius - 131

Eugene Jolas - Monologue - 133

Bravig Imbs - Poem - 137

Grace Hoffman White - The Station - 138

Lothar Mundan - Mythology - 139

W.C. Emory - The Fires of Madness - 140

Lorincz Szabó (trans. L. Gara and M. Largeaud) - A Quarter of an Hour Between God and the Office - 141

Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Zora Putnam Wilkins) - Autumn Day - 143

— Remembrance - 144

— Presentiment - 145

Paul Eluard (trans. Elliot Paul) - Untitled (Je ne sais pas.) - 146

Charles Recht - Fire Fanfare - 147

Essays, etc.:

Open Letter (see signatories) - Hands Off Love - 155

The Mysticism of Reality - Robert Sage - 166

Henri Monnet (trans. Bravig Imbs) - Oedipus Rex - 171

Eugene Jolas - Revolt Against the Philistine - 176

Samuel Putnam - Leopold Survage, Colored Rhythm and the Cinema - 180

Extra Material:

Glossary - 185 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)