NMLP P-041691 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Branch Will Not Break
James Wright · Wesleyan University Press, Middletown CT · 1963
US only. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1963. No British first edition of the collection is recorded. First thus traps: the poems are reset in Wright's Collected Poems (Wesleyan, 1971) and in Above the River: The Complete Poems (1990); Wesleyan has also kept the title continuously in print under ISBN 0819510181, so copies bearing that ISBN in commerce are late printings, not firsts.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041691 for "The Branch Will Not Break" by James Wright (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041691, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).