A Ballad of Remembrance

UK true first — census precedence claim confirmed. A Ballad of Remembrance appeared only from Paul Breman in London, with no contemporaneous US edition; a London small press, not a US house, published it. The census's 'mature debut' framing is CORRECTED: this was not Hayden's first book — Heart-Shape in the Dust (Falcon Press, Detroit, 1940) was. The first American appearance of much of this material is Selected Poems (October House, New York, 1966), which is a US collection, not an edition of this book.