The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List

Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2007

For the eight week-period -- including Poetry Month -- ending May 1, 2007, and based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.

Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at meg@booksense.com for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List

1.

The Trouble With Poetry
Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95, 9780375755217

2.

Thirst
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $22, 9780807068960

3.

Good Poems for Hard Times
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $15, 9780143037675

4.

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288

5.

Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $16, 9780142003442

6.

New and Selected Poems: Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $16, 9780807068779

7.

New and Selected Poems, Volume 2
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $16, 9780807068878

8.

Sailing Alone Around the Room
Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95, 9780375755194

9.

Why I Wake Early: New Poems
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $14, 9780807068793

10.

Poet's Choice
Edward Hirsch, Harvest, $16, 9780156032674

11.

The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
Stanley Kunitz, Norton, $17.95, 9780393329971

12.

Celebrations
Maya Angelou, Random House, $16.95, 9781400066100

13.

Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell, HarperCollins, $12.95, 9780061142666

14.

The Aeneid
Virgil, Robert Fagles (Trans.), Viking, $40, 9780670038039

15.

Mother
Maya Angelou, Random House, $9.95, 9781400066018

16.

The Gift
Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $16, 9780140195811

17.

The Odyssey
Homer, Penguin, $16, 9780140268867

18.

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Seamus Heaney, Norton, $13.95, 9780393320978

19.

Blue Iris
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $14, 9780807068830

20.

The Essential Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 9780062509598

21.

Howl: And Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, $6.95, 9780872860179

22.

The Best American Poetry
Billy Collins (Ed.), Scribner, $16, 9780743257596

23.

W. H. Auden: Selected Poems
W.H. Auden, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307278081

24.

Averno: Poems
Louise Gluck, FSG, $12, 9780374530747

25.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda, Penguin, $12, 9780143039969
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