Good Poems for Hard Times Selected by Garrison Keillor. Forget what you learned about poetry in school. Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and it has a passion for truth and justice and liberty--the spirit that has kept the American porch light lit through dark ages of history. Poets include Andrews, Berry, Coward, Dunn, Frost, Harrison, Ignatow, Keats, Longfellow, Melville, Oliver, Paley, Raab, Sandburg, Whitman, Young and many more. PB. 295 pgs.