17 Bestselling Poetry Books for Full Year - 2022

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#1

Karma’s Footsteps

by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

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#2

Punks

by John Keene

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#3

The Collected Poems of Ai

by Ai Ogawa

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#4

Call Us What We Carry

by Amanda Gorman

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#5

Don’t Call Us Dead

by Danez Smith

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#6

The Weary Blues

by Langston Hughes

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#7

If God Invented Baseball

by E. Ethelbert Miller

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#8

In This House

by Loretta Diane Walker

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#9

Providential

by Colin Channer

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#10

When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories

by E. Ethelbert Miller

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#11

How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask

by E. Ethelbert Miller

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#12

The Tradition

by Jericho Brown

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#13

The 100 Best African American Poems

by Nikki Giovanni

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#14

Cruelty/Killing Floor (Classic Reprint Series)

by Ai Ogawa

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#15

The Guide Signs

by Jay Wright

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#16

No Surrender

by Ai Ogawa

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#17

Sin

by Ai Ogawa

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