Poetry -- Chapter and Verse (Part 2): The Book Sense Bestseller List

Based on the last four weeks of sales of nearly 400 independent bookstores across America.

After a month of activities in honor of National Poetry Month, Book Sense is pleased to publish Part 2 of Chapter and Verse: The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List. (Part 1 can be found at http://news.bookweb.org/read/1297).

Thanks to all the stores that report!

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at kristen@bookweb.org for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

1. Nine Horses
Billy Collins, Random House, $21.95, 1400061776
2. Sailing Alone Around the Room
Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95, 0375755195
3. Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
Billy Collins (Ed.), Random House, $13.95, 0812968875
4. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
Alice Walker, Random House, $22.95, 0375509046
5. Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, $17.99, 0060256672
6. What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems
Mary Oliver, Da Capo, $15, 0306812061
7. Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
Roger Housden (Ed.), Harmony, $20, 1400047994
8. Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Viking, $25.95, 0670031267
9. Book of Haikus
Jack Kerouac, Penguin, $13, 014200264X
10. Poets Against the War
Sam Hamill (Ed.), Thunder's Mouth/Nation Books, $12.95, 1560255390
11. The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 0394404289
12. Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
Neil Astley (Ed.), Miramax Books, $16.95, 1401359264)
13. The War Prayer
Mark Twain, Perennial, $9.95, 0060911131
14. Mother Goose
Sylvia Long, Chronicle, $22.95, 0811820882
15. New and Selected Poems
Mary Oliver, Beacon, $16, 0807068195
16. Falling Up
Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, $17.95, 0060248025
17. The Real Mother Goose
Blanche Fisher Wright, Scholastic, $9.95, 0590225170
18. A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, $17.95, 0060256737
19. Plum
Tony Mitton, Arthur A. Levine, $17.95, 0439364094
20. Ten Poems to Change Your Life
Roger Housden, Harmony, $14, 0609609017
21. Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
Roger Housden, Harmony, $15, 1400045630
22. Rumi: The Book of Love
Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSanFrancisco, $21.95, 0060523166
23. Picnic, Lightning
Billy Collins, Random House, $12.95, 0822956705
24. Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered
Catherine Bowman (Ed.), Vintage, $12, 0375713158
25. The Soul of Rumi
Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSanFrancisco, $16.95, 0060604522
26. The Gift
Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $15, 0140195815
27. Bow Wow Meow Meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs
Douglas Florian, Harcourt, $17, 0152163956
28.

Loving Through Heartsongs
Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Hyperion, $14.95, 0786869461

29. The Essential Rumi
Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 0062509594
30. The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master
Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $12, 0140196234
31. Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present
David Lehman (Ed.), Scribner, $16, 0743243501
32. Love Poems From God: 12 Sacred Voices From the East and West
Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Trans.), Compass, $15, 0142196126
33. Questions About Angels
Billy Collins, Univ.of Pittsburgh, $12.95, 0822956985
34. Pio Peep! Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes
Alma Flor Ada (Ed.), Rayo, $14.99, 0688160190
35. 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life: An Anthology of Emotional First Aid
Daisy Goodwin (Ed.), HarperCollins, $15.95, 006052913X
36. My Very First Mother Goose
Iona A. Opie (Ed.), Candlewick, $21.99, 1564026205
37. Celebrate Through Heartsongs
Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Hyperion, $14.95, 0786869453
38. The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Caroline Kennedy, Hyperion, $21.95, 0786868090
39. The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse
Dean R. Koontz, HarperTrophy, $9.99, 0064409848
40. Insectlopedia
Douglas Florian, Voyager, $7, 0152163352
41. Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems From WritersCorps
Various authors, HarperTempest, $6.99, 0064472647
42. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow, $16.95, 0060097655
43. The Odyssey
Homer, Penguin, $14.95, 0140268863
44. The Art of Drowning
Billy Collins, Univ. of Pittsburgh, $12.95, 0822955679
45. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Seamus Heaney, Norton, $13.95, 0393320979
46. The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip-Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation
Mark Eleveld (Ed.), Sourcebooks, $24.95, 1402200374
47. The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
Jack Prelutsky, Petra Mathers (Illus.), Greenwillow, $16.95, 0688167195
48. Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living From the Good Doctor
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $6.99, 0679883568
49. Dirty Beasts
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Penguin, $6.99, 0142302279
50. Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Mary O'Neil, John Wallner (Illus.), Doubleday, $9.95, 0385410786