SPD Poetry Bestsellers

2000-2009 (The 'OO's!)

1. ONE STICK SONG by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose)
2. MUSE & DRUDGE by Harryette Mullen (Singing Horse) [OUT OF PRINT, avail. in Graywolf collection Recyclopedia, 9781555974565]
3. THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press)
4. FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press)
5. OLD SHIRTS & NEW SKINS by Sherman Alexie (Am. Indian Studies Center, UCLA)
6. THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU by Frank Stanford (Lost Roads)
7. EUNOIA by Christian Bök (Coach House)
8. PAMELA: A NOVEL by Pamela Lu (Atelos)
9. LETTERS TO WENDY'S by Joe Wenderoth (Verse/Wave)
10. YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM by Tao Lin (Action Books)
11. DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Third Woman Press) [OUT OF PRINT, avail. from U of Cal Press]
12. STATIONS OF DESIRE: LOVE ELEGIES FROM IBN 'ARABI AND NEW POEMS Trans. by Michael Sells (IBIS Editions)
13. THE GRANITE PAIL: THE SELECTED POEMS OF LORINE NIEDECKER (Gnomon)
14. HOWL AND OTHER POEMS by Allen Ginsberg (City Lights)
15. BLACK DOG SONGS by Lisa Jarnot (Flood)
16. NEVER MIND: TWENTY POEMS AND A STORY by Taha Muhammad Ali (IBIS Editions) [OUT OF PRINT]
17. S*PER***KT by Harryette Mullen (Singing Horse) [OUT OF PRINT, avail. in Graywolf collection Recyclopedia, 9781555974565]
18. LOVE ABOUT LOVE by C.K. Williams (Ausable)
19. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS by Bhanu Kapil (Kelsey Street Press)
20. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO by Barbara Jane Reyes (Tinfish)
21. MY WICKED WICKED WAYS by Sandra Cisneros (Third Woman) [1992 Knopf hardcover still avail.]
22. RULES OF THE HOUSE by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (Apogee)
23. RADI OS by Ronald Johnson (Flood)
24. NETS by Jen Bervin (Ugly Duckling)
25. I REMEMBER by Joe Brainard (Granary)
26. COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS by Aram Saroyan (Ugly Duckling)
27. THE MAN SUIT by Zachary Schomberg (Black Ocean)
28. THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press)
29. INCUBATION: A SPACE FOR MONSTERS by Bhanu Kapil (Kelsey Street)
30. DOUBLED FLOWERING: FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF ARAKI YASUSADA by Araki Yasusada (Roof Books)
31. DUST AND CONSCIENCE by Truong Tran (Apogee)
32. CHROMATIC by H.L. Hix (Etruscan Press)
33. POETICAL DICTIONARY (ABRIDGED) by Lohren Green (Atelos)
34. SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: AMERICAN WRITERS RESPOND Edited by William Heyen (Etruscan Press)
35. NECESSARY STRANGER by Graham Foust (Flood)
36. NEST by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (Kelsey Street)
37. HAPPILY by Lyn Hejinian (Post-Apollo)
38. FACE by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose)
39. TURNERESQUE by Elizabeth Willis (Burning Deck)
40. THE FATALIST by Lyn Hejinian (Omnidawn)
41. BREAKING POEMS by Suheir Hammad (Cypher)
42. NEW GOOSE by Lorine Niedecker (Listening Chamber)
43. IN THE ABSENT EVERYDAY by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (Apogee)
44. MINT SNOWBALL by Naomi Shihab Nye (Anhinga)
45. JUICE by Renee Gladman (Kelsey Street)
46. THE SENSE RECORD AND OTHER POEMS by Jennifer Moxley (Aerial/Edge)
47. LYRIC POSTMODERNISMS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY INNOVATIVE POETRIES Edited by Reginald Shepherd (Counterpath)
48. SLEEPING AND WAKING by Michael O'Brien (Flood)
49. ZERO STAR HOTEL by Anselm Berrigan (Aerial/Edge)
50. THE WEATHER by Lisa Robertson (New Star)

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