The Woman at the Washington Zoo

American origin: Atheneum, New York, 1960 is the true first, and no contemporaneous British edition of this collection is recorded in the sources consulted, so there is no UK-versus-US precedence question. The volume won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1961. The "first thus" traps are later collected volumes rather than rival firsts: the title poem and the rest of the contents are reprinted in Jarrell's later collected and complete poems, which are new settings and not editions of the 1960 book.