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The Indie Poetry Bestseller List
Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 3, 2015.
1. Blue Horses
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594204791
2. Aimless Love
Billy Collins, Random House, $16, 9780812982671
3. A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143124054
4. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
Jane Hirshfield, Knopf, $24.95, 9780385351058
5. New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $18, 9780807068779
6. This Present Moment
Gary Snyder, Counterpoint, $22, 9781619025240
7. The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288
8. The Beauty
Jane Hirshfield, Knopf, $26, 9780385351072
9. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204784
10. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
11. The Complete Poetry
Maya Angelou, Random House, $30, 9780812997873
12. Howl: And Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, $7.95, 9780872860179
13. The Essential Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSF, $15.99, 9780062509598
14. Faithful and Virtuous Night
Louise Gluck, FSG, $23, 9780374152017
15. Poems to Learn by Heart
Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423108054
16. The Odyssey
Homer, Robert Fagles (Trans.), Penguin, $18, 9780140268867
17. New and Selected Poems, Volume 2
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807068878
18. Chasers of the Light: Poems From the Typewriter Series
Tyler Knott Gregson, Perigee, $18, 9780399169731
19. Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $15, 9780807068793
20. Map: Collected and Last Poems
Wislawa Szymborska, Houghton Mifflin, $32, 9780544126022
21. Bluets
Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $14, 9781933517407
22. The Best American Poetry 2014
Terrance Hayes (Ed.), Scribner, $18.99, 9781476708171
23. From the New World: Poems 1976 – 2014
Jorie Graham, Ecco, $29.99, 9780062315403
24. Brand New Ancients
Kate Tempest, Bloomsbury, $15, 9781632862075
25. Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $20, 9780142003442