Best Sellers

Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of January 17, 2010

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1 1 Leavings by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) 19
2 4 Evidence by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 47
3 6 Red Bird (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 47
4 8 The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) 23
5 15 New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 145
6 9 Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 205
7 15 Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow) 52
8 7 Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 126
9 11 The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) 60
10 13 The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) 148
11 9 News of the World by Philip Levine (Knopf) 14
11 28 Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press) 39
12 -- It Is Daylight by Arda Collins (Yale University Press) 3
13 20 Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial) 156
14 10 A Village Life by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 23
14 -- Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan by June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press) 2
15 -- For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young (Knopf) 2
16 -- Scary, No Scary by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean) 3
17 -- Averno by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 61
17 12 Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike (Knopf) 44
18 -- Skirmish by Dobby Gibson (Graywolf Press) 2
19 23 The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) 82
20 16 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Kellior (Common Good Books) 35
20 17 Ballistics by Billy Collins (Random House) 73
21 12 Planisphere by John Ashbery (Ecco) 9
22 3 Sinners Welcome (paperback) by Mary Karr (Harper Perennial) 10
22 -- Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper Perennial) 42
23 22 Native Guard (paperback) by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin) 92
24 21 All American Poem by Matthew Dickman (American Poetry Review) 41
24 -- Face by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) 46
25 26 Dearest Creature by Amy Gerstler (Penguin) 13
26 29 Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Co.) 27
26 5 Sakura Park: Poems Rachel Wetzsteon (Persea) 3
26 -- On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek (Copper Canyon Press) 2
27 -- The Cosmopolitan Donna Stonecipher (Coffee House Press) 2
28 -- Fidelity by Grace Paley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 5
28 27 The End of the West by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon Press) 24
29 14 Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books) 99
29 -- Bluets by Maggie Nelson (Wave Books) 1
30 -- Collected Poems (paperback) by Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press) 46
30 -- A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories by Luci Tapahonso (University of Arizona Press) 2
30 19 The Chain Letter of the Soul by Bill Holm (Milkweed Editions) 14