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This poet repeats, “shutters shut and open so do queens” in a poem that implores, “Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.” A short poem by this author describes “a single hurt color” and ends, (15[1])“the difference is spreading.” (-5[1])The sections (15[1])“Objects,” “Food,” (15[3]-5[1])and “Rooms” (15[3])make (15[1])up a collection (15[2])by this poet (15[1])that includes (15[1])“A Carafe, That is a (15[1])Blind Glass.” (15[4])A book (15[2])by this author set in the town of Bridgepoint follows the titular (*) Three Lives of (10[1])Anna, Lena and Melanctha. (10[1])A Tommy Orange novel takes (10[1])its title (10[1])from this poet’s comment (10[1])of (10[1])her (10[1])hometown, “there is no there there.” (10[1])A remark by this author was used for the epigraph of The Sun Also Rises and (-5[1])coined (10[1])the term (10[1])“Lost (10[1])Generation.” (10[7]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[3])name this author of Tender Buttons and The Autobiography (10[2])of Alice B. Toklas. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Gertrude Stein (The poem in the first sentence is “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.”)
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