NMLP P-009675 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Book of Nightmares

Galway Kinnell · Houghton Mifflin (Boston) · 1971

The US Houghton Mifflin 1971 edition is the true first. A UK Bodley Head edition with slightly revised text followed, so the US precedes. Signed copies exist. The work is a single long poem in ten parts.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-009675 for "The Book of Nightmares" by Galway Kinnell (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-009675, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).