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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.” A poem by this author tells the title actress “we love you get up” after 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.” This poet’s day job as an art museum curator informed the line, (*) “I would rather look at you than all the 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” about the death of Billie Holiday. For 10 points, name this poet of “Having a Coke with You” (10[1])and Lunch Poems, which includes his poem “The Day Lady Died.” ■END■

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