The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List
For the eight-week sales period ending April 17, 2005, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the country.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
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| The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List |
| 1. | Break, Blow, Burn |
| 2. | Delights & Shadows |
| 3. | Why I Wake Early: New Poems |
| 4. | Good Poems |
| 5. | Sailing Alone Around the Room |
| 6. | The Prophet |
| 7. | New and Selected Poems: Volume One |
| 8. | 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day |
| 9. | Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing |
| 10. | Gilgamesh |
| 11. | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair |
| 12. | The Gift |
| 13. | Nine Horses: Poems |
| 14. | Blue Iris |
| 15. | The Essential Rumi |
| 16. | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation |
| 17. | Poetry 180 |
| 18. | Why I Wake Early: New Poems |
| 19. | Tears for Water |
| 20. | The Odyssey |
| 21. | The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems |
| 22. | The Poetry of Pablo Neruda |
| 23. | The Art of Reading Poetry |
| 24. | Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables |
| 25. | Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History |
| 26. | Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime |
| 27. | Danger on Peaks |
| 28. | Refusing Heaven |
| 29. | Los Versos del Capitan/The Captain's Verses |
| 30. | The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems |
| 31. | Where Shall I Wander: New Poems |
| 32. | Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985 |
| 33. | The Rose That Grew From Concrete |
| 34. | The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 |
| 35. | Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices From the East and West |