Best sellers for the week of June 7

Tony Hoagland's new book, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, jumps two spots on this week's best seller list to number 3, just ahead of Anne Carson's Nox and Billy Collins's Ballistics. William Logan, in the New Criterion, gave a tepid review to the book, saying "Hoagland has a superficial ease and charm—he’s likable, and his poems are likable, but they’re often less than they promise." The book, which takes as its subject the American penchant for shopping till dropping and celebrity worship, comes across, in Logan's view, as a fish-and-barrel exercise. "Denouncing Britney Spears," he writes, "is like invading Rhode Island." A poet who takes a slightly more complicated view of shopping and pop culture is Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout, whose book Versed returns to the best seller list this week at number 7.