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The Indie Poetry Bestseller List
Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 5, 2013.
1. Poems to Learn by Heart
Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423108054
2. A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594204777
3. My Brother’s Book
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $18.95, 9780062234896
4. Red Doc>
Anne Carson, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307960580
5. Stag’s Leap
Sharon Olds, Knopf, $16.95, 9780375712258
6. The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288
7. The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri, Clive James (Trans.), Liveright, $29.95, 9780871404480
8. New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $17, 9780807068779
9. The Best of the Best American Poetry
Robert Pinsky (Ed.), Scribner, $18, 9781451658880
10. Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson, Vintage, $15, 9780375701290
11. New Collected Poems
Wendell Berry, Counterpoint, $20.95, 9781619021525
12. Looking for the Gulf Motel
Richard Blanco, University of Pittsburgh Press, $15.95, 9780822962014
13. She Walks in Beauty
Caroline Kennedy (Ed.), Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401341459
14. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
15. Sailing Alone Around the Room
Billy Collins, Random House, $14.95, 9780375755194
16. A Family of Poems
Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.95, 9780786851119
17. Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $20, 9780142003442
18. Horoscopes for the Dead
Billy Collins, Random House, $15, 9780812975628
19. The Essential Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), Harper, $15.99, 9780062509598
20. The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi
Daniel Ladinsky, Nancy Owen Barton, Rumi, Penguin, $16, 9780143121619
21. The Country of Marriage
Wendell Berry, Counterpoint, $12.95, 9781619021082
22. One Today: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration
Richard Blanco, University of Pittsburgh Press, $8.95, 9780822962519
23. Howl: And Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg, City Lights, $7.95, 9780872860179
24. Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Billy Collins (Ed.), David Allen Sibley (Illus.), Columbia University Press, $16.95, 9780231150873
25. The Gift
Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $18, 9780140195811