100 Bestselling Poetry Books of all Time

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#1 – 9 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 She by Saul Williams

#4 – 4 Time Best Selling Book

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

#5 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

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

#6 – 3 Time Best Selling Book

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

#7 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

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

#8 – 2 Time Best Selling Book

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

#9 – 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

#10 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

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#11 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about One less road to travel: A collection of poetry by Nichole L Shields

#12 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks by

#13 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove

#14 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak) by Sonia Sanchez

#15 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou

#16 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook by Haki R Madhubuti

#17 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about 360° A Revolution of Black Poets by

#18 – 1 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

#19 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Storms Beneath the Skin by Regie Gibson

#20 – 1 Time Best Selling Book

Click for more detail about Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me by Maya Angelou

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