100 Bestselling Poetry Books of all Time

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Books 1 to 20 (of 100)

#1 – 10 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

#2 – 5 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about The Words Don’t Fit In My Mouth by Jessica Care Moore

#3 – 4 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Gorman, Amanda

#4 – 4 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about She by Saul Williams

#5 – 4 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about The Seventh Octave : The Early Writings of Saul Stacy Williams by Saul Stacey Williams

#6 – 4 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni

#7 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about We Speak Your Names: A Celebration by Pearl Cleage with Zaron W. Burnett

#8 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai

#9 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak) by Sonia Sanchez

#10 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou

#11 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

#12 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about The Tradition by Brown, Jericho

#13 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Young, Kevin

#14 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai

#15 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes

#16 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present by

#17 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Madhubuti, Haki R

#18 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

#19 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

#20 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker

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