NMLP P-030334 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Colossus and Other Poems (US)

Sylvia Plath · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1962

First American edition, Knopf, 14 May 1962; the US text drops ten poems from the UK edition (including most sections of 'Poem for a Birthday')

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-030334 for "The Colossus and Other Poems (US)" by Sylvia Plath (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030334, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).