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 |
| 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 |
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