NMLP P-041705 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

Maya Angelou · Random House, New York · 1971

US only. New York: Random House, 1971 — Angelou's first poetry collection and a Pulitzer Prize nominee. No British first edition of the collection is recorded. First thus traps: the Bantam mass-market paperback, and The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House, 1994), which resets the text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041705 for "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie" by Maya Angelou (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041705, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).