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Contemporary Best Sellers: Week of December 07, 2008

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WEEK
LAST
WEEK
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WEEKS
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Ballistics by Billy Collins (Random House)
13
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3
Red Bird by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
40
3
2
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
11
4
6
Thirst (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
67
5
16
The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
2
6
5
The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) by Billy Collins (Random House)
91
7
11
New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
150
8
4
Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
23
9
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Shadow Mountain by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan (Four Way Books)
1
10
7
The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint)
10
11
8
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
88
12
9
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
149
13
10
The Niagara River by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
31
14
12
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco )
8
15
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Yellowrocket: Poems Todd Boss (W. W. Norton)
3
16
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The Heaven-Sent Leaf (American Poets Continuum) Katy Lederer (BOA Editions Ltd.)
1
16
12
The People Look Like Flowers At Last (paperback) by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
48
17
13
One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds (Knopf )
9
18
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The Sound of It (Many Voices Project) by Tim Nolan (New Rivers Press)
2
19
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Modern Life by Matthea Harvey (Graywolf)
6
20
14
Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial)
141
20
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Buffalo Head Solos by Tim Seibles (Cleveland State U Poetry Center)
1
21
27
Collected Poems (paperback) by Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press)
38
22
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Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf)
20
23
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Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure edited by Wendy Maltz (New World Library)
4
24
29
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
91
24
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New and Selected Poems: Volume One (hardcover) by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
16
25
20
Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (Ecco)
124
25
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Points of Departures by Paul Hogan (White Pine Press)
1
26
25
Given: Poems by Wendell Berry (Shoemaker & Hoard)
71
27
27
Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
44
28
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White Apples and the Taste of Stone by Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin)
35
29
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Fidelity by Grace Paley (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
23
30
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Dear Darkness: Poems (Hardcover) by Kevin Young (Knopf)
3
30
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Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
136

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