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CONTEMPORARY: WEEK OF JANUARY 8, 2012
THIS LAST W EEKS W EEK W EEK BOOK TITLE ON LIST 1 1 Head Off & Split 21 BY NIKKY FINNEY (Triquarterly)
2 19 What Love Comes To 6 BY RUTH STONE (Copper Canyon Press)
3 3 Horoscopes for the Dead 42 BY BILLY COLLINS (Random House)
4 14 Nox 81 BY ANNE CARSON (New Directions)
5 6 Evidence (paperback) 68 BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)
6 5 Thirst (paperback) 225 BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)
7 11 New and Selected Poems: Volume Two (paperback) 243 BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)
8 2 Songs of Unreason 13 BY JIM HARRISON (Copper Canyon Press)
9 10 Red Bird (paperback) 145 BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)
10 15 The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) 122 BY W. S. MERWIN (Copper Canyon Press)
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11 10 The Best of It (paperback) 43 BY KAY RYAN (Grove Press)
12 9 The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) 154 BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI (Ecco)
13 16 The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback) 244 BY BILLY COLLINS (Random House)
14 20 Ballistics (paperback) 100 BY BILLY COLLINS (Random House)
15 – Feathering Deep 1 BY DAVID PARSONS (Texas Review Press)
16 – News of the World (paperback) 22 BY PHILIP LEVINE (Knopf)
17 7 Life on Mars 28 BY TRACY K. SMITH (Graywolf Press )
18 13 Come, Thief: Poems 20 BY JANE HIRSHFIELD (Knopf)
19 – The Back Chamber 17 BY DONALD HALL (HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT)
20 12 Swan 69 BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press)
21 26 Lighthead 57 BY TERRANCE HAYES (Penguin)
22 20 Bluets 36 BY MAGGIE NELSON (Wave Books)
23 18 Happy Life 25 BY DAVID BUDBILL (Copper Canyon Press)
24 – Come on All You Ghosts 34 BY MATTHEW ZAPRUDER (Copper Canyon Press )
25 21 One With Others: [a little book of her days] (paperback) 20 BY C. D. WRIGHT (Copper Canyon Press)
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