Poetry best sellers, January 9-16, 2011

New on this week's contemporary best seller list are two long titles: Quilting the Black Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni (number 26), and Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking by Tan Lin (number 21). The former came out in 2002, but Giovanni has been in the news and on the road recently, promoting her anthology The 100 Best African-American Poems (number 3 on the anthology list). The latter is the third collection of poems from Tan Lin (brother of Vietnam Memorial artist Maya Lin). It also contains the subtitle [AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE]. Publishers Weekly says, "Its high-concept fun and its serious provocations should get much attention from the proponents of conceptualism and the wider audience for pranks, provocations, and challenges of any artful sort."