NMLP P-030298 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Crossing the Water

Sylvia Plath · Faber and Faber · 1971

The Faber hardcover (1971) is the UK true first. The US Harper & Row edition (also 1971) is a substantially different selection of poems in a different order, so it is a distinct issue rather than the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-030298 for "Crossing the Water" by Sylvia Plath (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030298, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).