transition 14 was published in fall 1928. Edited by Eugene Jolas with associate editor Robert Sage and contributing editors Elliott Paul and Matthew Josephson.

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Cover art by Stuart Davis.

Contents of Issue 14

America

Photograph of Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons - 13

Matthew Josephson - American Letter - 56

Isidore Schneider - A Marriage of Venus - 65

Photograph of William Carlos Williams

Douglas Rigby - Life of Mejicana (extract) - 87

Elliot Paul - The Life and Death of Isaac Momblo - 89

Photograph of Ernest Hemingway in Florida

Why Do Americans Live in Europe? — Answered by:

— Gertrude Stein - 97

— Hilaire Hiler - 98

— Robert McAlmon - 98

— Leigh Hoffman - 100

— George Antheil - 101

— Kay Boyle - 102

— A. Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. - 103

— Walter Lowenfels - 105

— Pierre Loving - 108

— Emily Holmes Coleman - 110

— Berenice Abbott - 111

— Lansing Warren - 112

— Ivan Beede - 114

— Harry Crosby - 114

— Harold J. Salemson - 116

— Kathleen Cannell - 117

— H. Wolf Kaufman - 118

Whit Burnett - Balls, or Simple Error - 121

A. Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. - Language’s Relapproach Music and Plastic - 126

Edgar Calmer - People from Across the Plain - 131

W. Krickerberg - Fairy Tales of the Aztec and the Inca Periods - 137

Pre-Columbian Objects:

— Mexican Statue (Colima)

— Columbian Figure

— Mexican Statue (Colima)

— Peruvian Bowl (Nazca)

Kay Boyle - Vacation Time - 143

Elliott Paul - Stuart Davis, American Painter - 146

Stuart Davis - Trees

— Gasoline Pump

— Percolator

— Adit No. 2

Matthew Josephson - Allen Tate - 149

Laurence Vail - A Great One - 151

Ralph Church - A Note on the Writing of Gertrude Stein - 164

My Theory - Hiler

Harry Crosby - Hail: Death! - 169

John Graham - Painting

— Painting

Robert Sage - Etc. - 171

Eugene Jolas - Notes

Other Countries

Robert Desnos (Trans. Maria Jolas) - Midnight at Two O’Clock - 189

R. Gilbert-Lecomte - The Big Game - 195

Marcel Brion (Trans. Maive Sage) - The American Sub-Soil - 198

Georges Neveux - What Shadow Lifts Your Hand - 202

Berenice Abbott (Trans. Edouard Roditi) - Portrait of Philippe Soupault

Eric de Haulleville (Trans. Eugene Jolas) - Fragments - 206

Archibald Craig - “Without Saying It Is Time for Spring” - 210

Thomas Mc Greevy - A Note on Work in Progress - 216

Stuart Gilbert - The Man from Cheduba - 220

Geoffrey Phibbs - To Sleep Above Carthage - 226

Len Lye - Laura Riding Shawl

Richard Aldington - Stairway of Pain - 227

John Rodker - The Word Structure of Work in Progress - 229

Edouard Roditi - The Prophet Delivered - 233

Théo Dœsburg - Aubette, Strasburg, Section of Movie-Dancehall

— Aubette, Strasburg

Herbert Schlueter - Commercial Councillor Consebius - 237

Kasimir Edschmid (Trans. Eugene Jolas) - The Humiliating Room - 241

Willi R. Fehse (Trans. Eugene Jolas) - Rene and Leonid - 254

Guenter Eich - Verses On Many Evenings - 260

Soviet Exhibit - Press Exhibition, Cologne (photograph)

A. Novikov-Priboi (Trans. Sofia Himmel) - Beyond the City - 261

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. - The ‘Lef’ and Soviet Art - 267

Alfonso Reyes (Trans. Marquise d’Elbée) - Tropics - 271

Extra Material:

Glossary - 275 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)