The Poetry Bestseller List
Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 6, 2008 (including National Poetry Month).
| 1. | Red Bird: Poems |
| 2. | The Prophet |
| 3. | Thirst |
| 4. | Time and Materials: Poems 1997 - 2005 |
| 5. | Good Poems |
| 6. | New and Selected Poems: Volume One |
| 7. | The Trouble With Poetry |
| 8. | Behind My Eyes |
| 9. | Sailing Alone Around the Room |
| 10. | Good Poems for Hard Times |
| 11. | Fidelity |
| 12. | Why I Wake Early: New Poems |
| 13. | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation |
| 14. | The Gift |
| 15. | Tao Te Ching |
| 16. | The Essential Rumi |
| 17. | The Odyssey |
| 18. | Love Poems |
| 19. | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness |
| 20. | Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart |
| 21. | Howl: And Other Poems |
| 22. | Poetry as Insurgent Art |
| 23. | 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits |
| 24. | Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again |
| 25. | Nine Horses: Poems |
| 26. | Book of Longing |
| 27. | The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost |
| 28. | I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems |
| 29. | Blue Iris |
| 30. | Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems |
Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.
Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at meg@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
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