The Indie Poetry Bestseller List
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 August 3, 2014. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org.
1. Dog Songs, Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594204784
2. Aimless Love, Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780679644057
3. A Thousand Mornings: Poems, Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143124054
4. The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288
5. The Night Before College, Sonya Sones, Ava Tramer, Grosset & Dunlap, $9.99, 9780448461472
6. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them, Anthony Holden, Ben Holden, S&S, $25, 9781476712772
7. Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems, Paul B. Janeczko, Melissa Sweet (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $16.99, 9780763648428
8. Poems to Learn by Heart, Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.), Hyperion, $19.99, 9781423108054
9. New and Selected Poems, Volume One, Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $18, 9780807068779
10. I Carry Your Heart with Me, E.E. Cummings, Mati Rose McDonough (Illus.), Cameron & Company, $16.95, 9781937359522
11. The Essential Rumi, Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), HarperSF, $15.99, 9780062509598
12. Love Poems, Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
13. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, Seamus Heaney (Trans.), Norton, $14.95, 9780393320978
14. Good Poems, Garrison Keillor (Ed.), Penguin, $20, 9780142003442
15. Howl: And Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, $7.95, 9780872860179
Go here for the Small Press Distribution list of poetry bestsellers for July 2014.