NMLP P-032536 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Dancing Bears

W.S. Merwin · Yale University Press (New Haven) · 1954

US Yale University Press, 1954; sole first edition, no earlier or competing printing. Note this title was not itself a Yale Series of Younger Poets selection (that was his 1952 debut A Mask for Janus), though it was likewise published by Yale.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032536 for "The Dancing Bears" by W.S. Merwin (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032536, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).