transition 9 was published in December 1927. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul with associate editor Robert Sage.

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Contents of Issue 9

Fiction:

Matthew Josesphson - Lionel and Camilla - 9

Djuna Barnes - Rape and Repining - 20

Elliot Paul - License Three Hundred or the rounder’s conversion to light magic - 29

Georges Ribemont-Dessainges (trans. Maria McDonald Jolas ) - Confitor - 41

Eugene Jolas - Carrousel - 57

T.B. Rudmore-Broun - The Field - 62

Konstantin Fedin (trans. Sofia Himmel) - The Garden - 76

Kay Boyle - Bitte Nehmen Sie Die Blumen - 88

Ralph Manheim - Catherine Bozza’s Pencil - 94

Carl Sternheim (trans. Eugene Jolas) - A Pair of Drawers - 102

Painting:

Joan Miro - Painting

—Painting

Max Ernst - The Virgin Corrects the Child Jesus Before Three Witnesses. (Left to right, the witnesses are: Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, André Breton.)

E. de Kermadec - Painting

Poetry:

Evan Shipman - To a Second Picture by André Masson - 123

— Wonder - 124

Ojibway Poem (trans. Janet Lewis) - Song for a Dance - 125

Pauline Leader - Spirit of the Street - 126

— Epitaph - 127

— The Market-Place - 128

William Carlos Williams - Winter - 129

Yvor Winters - See Los Angeles First - 130

— Bison - 131

Hart Crane - East of Yucatan - 132

Charles Davies - Last Hour of Peace - 137

Laura Riding - And this Is Loveliness - 138

— Though in One Time - 139

— Footfalling - 140

Matthew Josephson - (Illness Joy and Slow Convalescence: An Interlude) - 141

Murray Godwin - In His Footsteps - 146

Cary Ross - Parade Internationale - 156

Essays, etc.:

The Editors - First Aid to the Enemy - 161

The Editors - The Case of Samuel Roth - 177 - (prefatory remarks for the proceeding counter-attack)

— Waverly Lewis Root - King of the Jews - 178

— Correspondence - 185

— Eugene Jolas - On the Quest - 191

— Elliot Paul - Mr. Joyce’s Treatment of Plot - 197

Marcel Brion (trans. Robert Sage) - William Blake Today - 204

Extra Material:

Glossary - 208 - (supplementary note)