transition 7 was published in October 1927. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul with associate editor Robert Sage.

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Contents of Issue 7

Fiction:

William Carlos Williams - A Voyage to Pagany (Extracts) - 9

Marcel Jouhandeau - Prudence Hautechaume - 18

Laura Riding - In a Cafe - 31

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 34

George B. Leonard - The Prostitute - 57

Philippe Soupault - The Death of Nick Carter - 64

John Mitchell - Renunciation - 75

C.W. Whittemore - The Fur Coat - 77

Elliot Paul - No. 4 Commercial Street - 85

Carl Sternham (trans. Eugene Jolas) - A Pair of Drawers - 88

Art:

Alexander Calder - Wire Sculpture

Polelonema - Painting

— Painting

Max Ernst - Landscape

Poetry:

Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse) - From ‘The Lay of Maldoror’ - 105

Yvor Winters - Satyric Complaint - 115

— Demigod - 117

— Chrysanthemums - 118

— Triumph - 119

Giuseppe Ungaretti (trans. Emile Gouthiere) - Transfiguration - 120

Karel Toman (trans. Charles Dournot) - October - 121

Allen Tate - Procession - 122

Pierre Minet (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Poem - 123

Emily Holmes Coleman - The Liberator - 124

Henri Solveen (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Psalm - 126

Pierre Reverdy (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Inn - 127

Hart Crane - Van Winkle - 128

Hans Arp (trans. Eugene Jolas) - The Light-Shunning Paradise (fragment) - 130

Robert Graves - O Jorrocks, I Have Promised - 132

Elsa Baroness von Freytag Loringhoven - Café du Dome - 134

— X-Ray - 135

Ivan Goll - Caravan of Longings - 136

Essays, etc.:

Laura Riding - Jamais Plus - 139

Eugene Jolas - Enter the Imagination - 157

Robert Sage - A Modern Xantippe - 161

Elliot Paul - Honeysuckle Coloured Pyjamas - 166

Extra Material:

Advertisement - 171

Glossary - 173 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)