The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

1.

Evidence
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $23, 9780807068984

2.

Bicycles: Love Poems
Nikki Giovanni, Morrow, $16.99, 9780061726453

3.

Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration
Elizabeth Alexander, Graywolf, $8, 9781555975456

4.

Red Bird
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $14, 9780807068939

5.

Poem in Your Pocket
Elaine Bleakney (Ed.), Abrams Image, $14.95, 9780810906365

6.

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288

7.

Endpoint and Other Poems
John Updike, Knopf, $25, 9780307272867

8.

Ballistics
Billy Collins, Random House, $24, 9781400064915

9.

Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud
Robert Pinsky (Ed.), Norton, $29.95, 9780393066081

10.

Good Poems for Hard Times
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $16, 9780143037675

11.

New and Selected Poems: Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807068779

12.

Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $17, 9780142003442

13.

Poets' Corner
John Lithgow (Ed.), Grand Central, $24.99, 9780446580021

14.

The Shadow of Sirius
W.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon, $22, 9781556592843

15.

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

16.

The Gift
Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $16, 9780140195811

17.

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

18.

Thirst
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $14, 9780807068977

19.

C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
C.P. Cavafy, Knopf, $35, 9780375400964

20.

The Essential Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperOne, $14.95, 9780062509598

21.

The Trouble With Poetry
Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95, 9780375755217

22.

Time and Materials: Poems 1997 - 2005
Robert Hass, Ecco, $13.95, 9780061350283

23.

The Pocket Rumi
Kabir Helminski (Ed.), Shambhala, $6.95, 9781590306352

24.

Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen, Ecco, $13.99, 9780061125614

25.

The Best American Poetry 2008
David Lehman, Charles Wright (Eds.), Scribner, $16, 9780743299756