The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Poetry Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending August 30, 2020. 
 

1. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30, 9780399563249

2. The Tradition
Jericho Brown, Copper Canyon Press, $17, 9781556594861

3. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256

4. The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486792

5. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250

6. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong, Copper Canyon Press, $16, 9781556594953

7. Finna: Poems
Nate Marshall, One World, $17, 9780593132456

8. Homie: Poems
Danez Smith, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450109

9. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143125839

10. Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems
Natalie Diaz, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450147

11. 1919
Eve L. Ewing, Haymarket Books, $16, 9781608465989

12. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers, Luke Flowers (Illus.), Quirk Books, $19.99, 9781683691136

13. New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $18, 9780807068779

14. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Homer, Robert Fagles (Transl.), Penguin, $19, 9780140268867

15. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
Ross Gay, University of Pittsburgh Press, $17, 9780822963318

16. Felicity: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143128762

17. break your glass slippers (you are your own fairy tale)
Amanda Lovelace, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781524851897

18. Bluets
Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $16, 9781933517407

19. Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley, MCD x FSG Originals, $15, 9780374110031

20. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143124054

21. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293

22. The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288

23. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Joy Harjo (Ed.), Norton, $19.95, 9780393356809

24. An American Sunrise: Poems
Joy Harjo, Norton, $25.95, 9781324003861

25. Blue Horses: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143127819