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Good Poems for Hard Times Condition:Well Read The maniacal ex-scientist Karl StrandChosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Jennifer Michael Hecht, the voices