The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

Based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 8, 2011.

1. She Walks in Beauty
Caroline Kennedy (Ed.), Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401341459

2. Horoscopes for the Dead
Billy Collins, Random House, $24, 9781400064922

3. The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan, Grove, $14.95, 9780802145215

4. The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288

5. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $23, 9780807068991

6. New and Selected Poems: Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $17, 9780807068779

7. Evidence: Poems
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $14, 9780807069059

8. Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
Leonard Cohen, Everyman’s Library, $13.50, 9780307595836

9. Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
David Orr, Harper, $25.99, 9780061673450

10. Good Poems, American Places
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Viking, $28.95, 9780670022540

11. Howl: And Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg, City Lights, $7.95, 9780872860179

12. Poems
Elizabeth Bishop, FSG, $16, 9780374532369

13. The Best American Poetry: 2010
Amy Gerstler, David Lehman (Eds.), Scribner, $16, 9781439181454

14. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293

15. Ballistics
Billy Collins, Random House, $15, 9780812975611

16. The Essential Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), Harper, $15.99, 9780062509598

17. The Trouble With Poetry: And Other Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95, 9780375755217

18. The Gift
Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $17, 9780140195811

19. New and Selected Poems: Volume Two
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $16, 9780807068878

20. Sailing Alone Around the Room
Billy Collins, Random House, $14.95, 9780375755194

21. Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $18, 9780142003442

22. Leavings: Poems
Wendell Berry, Counterpoint, $14.95, 9781582436241

23. Irish Poems
Matthew McGuire (Ed.), Everyman’s Library, $13.50, 9780307594983

24. Red Bird
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $14, 9780807068939

25. Thirst: Poems
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $14, 9780807068977