Question

A prompt by editor Donald Allen led this poet to write a joking manifesto on putting poems “between two persons rather than two pages,” called “Personism.” (15[1])A poem by this author tells the title actress “we love you get up” after (15[1])learning that she “has collapsed!” This poet notes, “I am quietly (15[1])waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again” in the poem “Mayakovsky.” (15[1])This (15[2])poet’s day job as an art museum curator informed the line, (*) “I would rather look at you than all the (10[1])portraits in the world / except possibly for the Polish Rider.” The line “everyone and I stopped breathing” concludes a poem by this author set on “12:20 in New York on a Friday” (10[2])about the death of Billie Holiday. (10[1])For 10 points, name this poet of “Having a Coke with You” (10[1])and Lunch (10[1])Poems, which includes his poem (-5[1])“The Day (10[1])Lady Died.” ■END■ (10[1]0[11])

ANSWER: Frank O’Hara [or Francis Russell O'Hara] (The poem in the second sentence is “Lana Turner has collapsed!”)
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