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Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of April 27, 2008

THIS
WEEK
LAST
WEEK
BOOK
WEEKS
ON LIST
1
1
Red Bird by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
10
2
3
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco)
30
3
2
Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
37
4
27
Special Orders by Edward Hirsch (Alfred A. Knopf)
5
5
5
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House)
61
6
8
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
119
7
6
New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
120
8
4
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2
9
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Acolytes: Poems by Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow)
35
10
9
Fidelity by Grace Paley (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
7
11
7
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
58
12
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
60
13
15
Sea Change by Jorie Graham (Ecco)
5
14
10
Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
16
15
18
The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
18
16
21
That Little Something by Charles Simic (Harcourt)
6
17
24
Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins (Random House)
117
18
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The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers)
26
19
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Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial)
113
20
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Watercolor Women Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse by Ana Castillo (Curbstone Press)
2
21
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Something About the Blues by Al Young (sourcebooks mediaFusion)
6
21
30
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
72
22
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Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
5
23
20
Sixty Poems by Charles Simic (Harvest Books)
18
24
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy by Tao Lin (Melville House)
1
24
12
Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
4
25
23
Valentines by Ted Kooser (University of Nebraska Press)
18
25
19
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe (W.W. Norton)
10
26
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Here, Bullet by Brian Turner (Alice James Books)
58
27
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White Apples and the Taste of Stone by Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin)
19
28
29
The Ghost Soldiers by James Tate (Ecco)
4
29
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Collected Poems (paperback) by Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press)
26
29
28
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell (Mariner Books)
5
30
11
Native Guard (paperback) by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
50

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