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American Life in Poetry: Column 496 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, [removed]One of Grant Wood’s earliest paintings is of a pair of old shoes, and it hangs in the art museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where Wood grew u