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September 2008
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2007 Best Sellers

RANK
BOOK
WEEKS
ON LIST
1
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House)
41
2
Thirst by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
68
3
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
89
4
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
38
5
New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
100
6
Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
17
7
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
99
8
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco)
10
9
Native Guard (paperback) by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
35
10
Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins (Random House)
98
11
Acolytes: Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow)
34
12
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
98
13
Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial)
96
14
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
45
15
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
58
16
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins (Random House)
79
17
Averno by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
35
18
Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
95
19
The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic (Harvest Books)
21
20
The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers)
7
21
Come On In! (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
35
22
The People Look Like Flowers at Last: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
25
23
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
80
24
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
72
25
sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
82
26
After by Jane Hirshfield (Harper Perennial)
28
27
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin Books)
33
28
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
28
29
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books)
51
30
Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
59



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