Poetry best sellers November 28-December 4, 2010

Not much has changed at the top of the contemporary best seller list this week. The game of musical chairs between Mary Oliver, Seamus Heaney, Kay Ryan, and Terrance Hayes continues, with Oliver’s Swan perched in the number 1 spot. Further down the list, James Richardson’s new collection, By the Numbers, makes its first appearance at number 29, and Frederick Seidel’s Poems 1959-2009 returns at number 23. On the anthology list, the 2010 Best American Poetry, edited by Amy Gerstler, remains at the top, and the New Directions collection of Christmas Poems holds steady at number 6.