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1. Dog Songs Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204784
2. Aimless Love Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780679644057
3. A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143124054
4. Love Poems Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
5. Poems to Learn by Heart Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423108054
6. The Prophet Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288
7. New and Selected Poems, Volume One Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $18, 9780807068779
8. I Carry Your Heart with Me E.E. Cummings, Mati Rose McDonough (Illus.), Cameron & Company, $16.95, 9781937359522
9. The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSF, $15.99, 9780062509598
10. Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems Paul B. Janeczko, Melissa Sweet (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $16.99, 9780763648428
11. The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems Emily Dickinson, New Directions, $39.95, 9780811221757
12. Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford William Stafford, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555976644
13. The Conference of the Birds Peter Sis, Penguin, $18, 9780143124245
14. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry Anthony Holden, Ben Holden, Simon & Schuster, $25, 9781476712772
15. Sailing Alone Around the Room Billy Collins, Random House, $14.95, 9780375755194
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