Compiled by the American Booksellers Association, and based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States, for the twelve-week sales period ending February 2, 2014. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org
1. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204784
2. Aimless Love by Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780679644057
3. A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143124054
4. Poems to Learn by Heart ed. Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423108054
5. The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson, New Directions / Christine Burgin, $39.95, 9780811221757
6. The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis, Penguin, $18, 9780143124245
7. O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound ed.Garrison Keillor, Grove Press, $20, 9780802121615
8. The Prophet Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288
9. New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $17, 9780807068779
10. The Best American Poetry 2013 ed. David Lehman, Denise Duhamel Scribner, $16.99, 9781476708133
11. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins, Random House, $14.95, 9780375755194
12. What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings by Joyce Sidman, Pamela Zagarenski (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780544106161
13. This Day: Sabbath Poems New and Collected 1979-2012 by Wendell Berry, Counterpoint, $30, 9781619021983
14. Incarnadine by Mary Szybist, Graywolf Press, $15, 9781555976354
15. Love Poems by Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
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Here are the December 2013 top poetry titles in circulation from the New York Public Library:
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
- All the Odes by Pablo Neruda
- The Iliad by Homer
- Red by Anne Carson
- Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
- Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Dog Songs: Thirty-five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver
Go here for the Small Press Distribution poetry bestsellers for January 2014.
— sdh