Best Sellers

Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of October 25, 2009

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1 3 Evidence by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 33
2 1 The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) by W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press) 9
3 2 Leavings by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) 5
4 4 Red Bird (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 33
5 7 Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 193
6 9 A Village Life by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 9
7 -- All American Poem by Matthew Dickman (American Poetry Review) 27
8 16 Face by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) 31
9 12 New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 133
10 5 Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press) 112
11 8 The Continual Condition by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) 5
12 -- The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House) 134
12 11 In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press) 29
13 17 The Chain Letter of the Soul by Bill Holm (Milkweed Editions) 3
14 15 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Kellior (Common Good Books) 22
15 6 Ballistics by Billy Collins (Random House) 58
16 10 News of the World by Philip Levine (Knopf) 4
16 20 Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (Harper Perennial) 35
17 -- Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander (Graywolf Press) 32
17 13 The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) 46
18 29 The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (Grove Press) 71
19 26 Wheeling Motel by Franz Wright (Knopf) 8
20 27 Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike (Knopf) 30
21 -- Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow) 39
22 25 Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn (Manic D Press, Inc.) 5
22 -- The End of the West by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon Press) 20
22 24 Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno (Alice James Books) 17
22 -- Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 23
23 -- Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Co.) 19
24 -- The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco) 83
24 -- Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach (Penguin (Non-Classics)) 2
25 -- American Music by Chris Martin (Copper Canyon) 1
25 -- Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books) 90
26 26 Upgraded to Serious by Heather McHugh (Copper Canyon Press) 3
26 -- Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco ) 44
27 26 In Advance of All Parting by Ansie Baird (White Pine Press) 4
27 -- The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) 29
27 -- Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books) 1
27 -- Lucifer at the Starlite by Kim Addonizio (W.W. Norton & Co.) 7
28 -- Embryoyo by Dean Young (McSweeney's) 7
30 -- The Mansion of Happiness by Robin Ekiss (University of Georgia Press) 1