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PEGASUS BOOKS DOWNTOWN'S
BEST-SELLING POETRY BOOKS OF 2007
(DON'T BLAME ME; BLAME YOU.)

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1. Telegraph by Kaya Oakes (Pavement Saw Press)


2. Green and Gray by Geoffrey G. O'Brien (University of California Press)


3. An Architecture by Chad Sweeney (BlazeVOX [books])


4. Necessary Stranger by Graham Foust (Flood Editions)


5. Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing eds. Catherine Wagner & Rebecca Wolff (Fence Books)


6. The Pocket Rumi Reader ed. Kabir Helminski (Shambhala)


7. Hipster Haiku by Siobhan Adcock (Broadway)
   case sensitive by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta)
   New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
   New and Selected Poems: Volume Two by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)


8. Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco Press)
   The Record Room by Jeff T. Johnson (privately published)
   Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner (Copper Canyon Press)
   The Transformation by Juliana Spahr (Atelos)


9. you are a little bit happier than I am by Tao Lin (Action Books)
   The Men by Lisa Robertson (BookThug)


10. Your Time Has Come by Joshua Beckman (Wave Books)
    The Weather by Lisa Robertson (New Star Books)


11. Actual Air by David Berman (Open City)
    Borderless Bodies by Linh Dinh (Factory School)
    The Cry at Zero by Andrew Joron (Counterpath Press)
    AWE by Dorothea Lasky (Wave Books)
    Loveliest Grotesque by Sandra Lim (Kore Press)
    The Line by Jennifer Moxley (The Post-Apollo Press)
    American Poets in the 21st Century eds. Claudia Rankine & Lisa Sewell (Wesleyan University Press)
    The Apothecary by Lisa Robertson (BookThug)
    Hannah Weiner's Open House by Hannah Weiner (Kenning Editions)


12. jam alerts by Linh Dinh (Chax Press)
    The Gift by Hafiz (Penguin)
    Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky (Tupelo Press)
    Bad Bad by Chelsey Minnis (Fence Books)


13. Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen (Ecco Press)
    The Essential Neruda by Pablo Neruda (City Lights Publishers)
    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (Penguin)


14. Starsdown by Jasper Bernes (In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni)
    Neo-Surrealism; or, the Sun at Night by Andrew Joron (Black Square Editions)
    Broken World by Joseph Lease (Coffee House Press)
    Tonight's the Night by Catherine Meng (Apostrophe Books)
    I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone by Anna Moschovakis (Turtle Point Press)
    The Middle Room by Jennifer Moxley (Subpress)
    Thirst by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
    The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)
    Deed by Rod Smith (University of Iowa Press)

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