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Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of June 15, 2008

THIS
WEEK
LAST
WEEK
BOOK
WEEKS
ON LIST
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Red Bird by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
17
2
3
Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
44
3
4
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House)
68
4
2
New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
127
5
7
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
126
6
6
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
65
7
5
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco)
37
8
10
Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins (Random House)
124
8
8
The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
25
9
12
That Little Something by Charles Simic (Harcourt)
13
10
23
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell (Mariner Books)
11
11
18
Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf)
14
12
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Scattered Chapters: New & Selected Poems by Baron Wormser (Sarabande Books)
2
13
17
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
78
14
30
The Immigrant's Contract by Leland Kinsey (David R. Godine)
5
15
14
Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
23
16
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Sister by Nickole Brown (Red Hen Press)
2
17
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Everything Else in the World: Poems by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton )
1
18
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
63
18
16
Sixty Poems by Charles Simic (Harvest Books)
25
19
14
Sea Change by Jorie Graham (Ecco)
12
20
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The Usable Field by Jane Mead (Alice James Books)
1
20
13
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
120
21
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What Love Comes To by Ruth Stone (Copper Canyon Press)
2
21
24
Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
108
21
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Matter of Fact by Eamon Grennan (Graywolf Press)
2
22
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sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
96
23
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Saving Daylight (paperback) by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press)
13
23
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Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial)
119
24
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy by Tao Lin (Melville House)
2
24
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Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
8
25
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Still Here, Still Now by Robert Pack (University Of Chicago Press)
1
25
25
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
9
26
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White Apples and the Taste of Stone by Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin)
22
26
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God's Silence by Franz Wright (Knopf)
4
26
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Things I Must Have Known by A. B. Spellman (Coffee House Press)
1
26
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Queen of a Rainy Country (paperback) by Linda Pastan (W.W. Norton)
2
27
15
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe (W.W. Norton)
17
27
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Conduit by Khadijah Queen (Akashic Books)
1
28
20
The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers)
33
29
29
Valentines by Ted Kooser (University of Nebraska Press)
23
29
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Rising, Falling, Hovering by C. D. Wright (Copper Canyon Press)
4
30
26
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
92
30
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Come On In! (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
43
30
24
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
33

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