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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 waiting for the catastrophe of my personality (15[1])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” 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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