The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.
 
Here is the Indie Poetry Words Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending April 28, 2019.
 

1. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30, 9780399563249

2. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256

3. The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486792

4. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers, Luke Flowers (Illus.), Quirk Books, $19.99, 9781683691136

5. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143125839

6. Felicity
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143128762

7. New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $18, 9780807068779

8. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Trans.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250

9. A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143124054

10. Blue Horses
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143127819

11. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293

12. Love Poems for Married People
John Kenney, Putnam, $15, 9780525540007

13. Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555978310

14. the mermaid’s voice returns in this one
Amanda Lovelace, ladybookmad, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449494162

15. Cat Poems
Tynan Kogane (Ed.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811227506

16. Magical Negro
Morgan Parker, Tin House Books, $15.95, 9781947793187

17. The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Penguin, $16, 9780143133582

18. The Tradition
Jericho Brown, Copper Canyon Press, $17, 9781556594861

19. Empty Bottles Full of Stories
r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Andrews McMeel, $17.99, 9781449496470

20. The Essential W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon Press, $18, 9781556595134

21. Silence, Joy
Thomas Merton, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811228237

22. Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $15, 9780807068793

23. Bluets
Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $16, 9781933517407

24. There are Girls like Lions: Poems about Being a Woman
Karolin Schnoor (Illus.), Cole Swensen (Foreword), Chronicle Books, $16.95, 9781452173450

25. New Hampshire
Robert Frost, Vintage, $10, 9780525565345