Poetry best sellers, September 19-27, 2010

This week’s contemporary best seller list marks the return of some familiar names: Maxine Kumin’s selected poems, Where I Live, returns at number 9, Brian Turner’s second collection, Phantom Noise, ties with Anne Carson’s Nox at number 18, and Terrance Hayes’s Lighthead rounds out the list at number 30. Debuting on the list this week is Shahid Reads His Own Palm, a first book from Cave Canem fellow Reginald Dwayne Betts that begins and ends with a ghazal, the ancient Arabic form made popular again by the late Agha Shahid Ali. Mary Oliver remains on top for the second week in a row.