Poetry -- Chapter and Verse (Part 1): The Book Sense Bestseller List
Based on the last four weeks of sales of nearly 400 independent bookstores across America.
In honor of National Poetry Month, Book Sense is publishing a poetry bestseller list at the beginning and the end of April. Thanks to all the stores that report! Please check back in four weeks to see how customers respond to poetry events all around the country. (To view previous lists, click here.)
Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
| 1. | Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems Alice Walker, Random House, $22.95, 0375509046 |
| 2. | Sailing Alone Around the Room Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95, 0375755195 |
| 3. | Good Poems Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Viking, $25.95, 0670031267 |
| 4. | Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, $17.99, 0060256672 |
| 5. | New and Selected Poems Mary Oliver, Beacon, $16, 0807068195 |
| 6. | The Prophet Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 0394404289 |
| 7. | Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation Roger Housden (Ed.), Harmony, $20, 1400047994 |
| 8. | The Real Mother Goose Blanche Fisher Wright, Scholastic, $9.95, 0590225170 |
| 9. | Mother Goose Sylvia Long, Chronicle, $22.95, 0811820882 |
| 10. | Loving Through Heartsongs Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Hyperion, $14.95, 0786869461 |
| 11. | Ten Poems to Change Your Life Roger Housden, Harmony, $14, 0609609017 |
| 12. | Plum Tony Mitton, Arthur A. Levine, $17.95, 0439364094 |
| 13. | Nine Horses Billy Collins, Random House, $21.95, 0375503811 |
| 14. | Falling Up Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, $17.95, 0060248025 |
| 15. | A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, $17.95, 0060256737 |
| 16. | Rumi: The Book of Love Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSanFrancisco, $21.95, 0060523166 |
| 17. | The Soul of Rumi Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSanFrancisco, $16.95, 0060604522 |
| 18. | Ten Poems to Open Your Heart Roger Housden, Harmony, $15, 1400045630 |
| 19. | Picnic, Lightning Billy Collins, Random House, $12.95, 0822956705 |
| 20. | Celebrate Through Heartsongs Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Hyperion, $14.95, 0786869453 |
| 21. | Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered Catherine Bowman (Ed.), Vintage, $12, 0375713158 |
| 22. | The Gift Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $15, 0140195815 |
| 23. | Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way Charles Bukowski, Ecco, $27.50, 0060527358 |
| 24. | The Essential Rumi Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSanFrancisco, $14, 0062509594 |
| 25. | 100 Love Sonnets Pablo Neruda, University of Texas, $15.95, 0292760280 |
| 26. | Inferno Dante Alighieri, Modern Library, $9.95, 0812967216 |
| 27. | Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices From the East and West Daniel Ladinsky, Compass, $15, 0142196126 |
| 28. | The Poetry of Robert Frost |
| 29. | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Seamus Heaney, Norton, $13.95, 0393320979 |
| 30. | Seasons: A Book of Poems Charlotte Zolotow, HarperTrophy, $3.99, 0060518545 |
| 31. | The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $12, 0140196234 |
| 32. | The Leaf and the Cloud Mary Oliver, Da Capo, $15, 0306810735 |
| 33. | What Do We Know Mary Oliver, Da Capo, $15, 0306812061 |
| 34. | Blue Hour Carolyn Forche, HarperCollins, $24.95, 0060099127 |
| 35. | Here's What You Do When You Can't Find Your Shoe: Ingenious Inventions for Pesky Problems Andrea Perry, Atheneum, $16.95, 068983067X |
| 36. | Moon, Have You Met My Mother? Karla Kuskin, Laura Geringer, $16.99, 0060271736 |
| 37. | The War Prayer Mark Twain, Perennial, $9.95, 0060911131 |
| 38. | Heartsongs Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Hyperion, $11.50, 1893622118 |
| 39. | The Rose That Grew from Concrete Tupac Shakur, MTV Books, $20, 0671028448 |
| 40. | Twenty Love Poems: And a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda, Penguin, $9.95, 0140186484 |
| 41. | Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95, 0812968875 |
| 42. | Who Will Cry for the Little Boy? Antwone Quenton Fisher, William Morrow, $9.95, 0060549327 |
| 43. | 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow, $16.95, 0060097655 |
| 44. | Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems From WritersCorps Various, HarperTempest, $6.99, 0064472647 |
| 45. | What Do We Know Mary Oliver, Da Capo, $22, 030680994X |
| 46. | In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stone, Copper Canyon, $20, 1556591780 |
| 47. | Poems to Read to the Very Young Josette Frank (Ed.), Random House, $7.99, 0375804757 |
| 48. | Bow Wow Meow Meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs Douglas Florian, Harcourt, $17, 0152163956 |
| 49. | Source Mark Doty, Perennial, $12.95, 0060935405 |
| 50. | The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders Jack Prelutsky, Petra Mathers (Illus.), Greenwillow, $16.95, 0688167195 |
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