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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, “the difference is spreading.” The sections “Objects,” “Food,” and “Rooms” make up a collection by this poet that includes “A Carafe, That is a Blind Glass.” A book by this author set in the town of Bridgepoint follows the titular (*) Three Lives of Anna, Lena and Melanctha. A Tommy Orange novel takes its title from this poet’s comment (10[1])of her hometown, “there is no there there.” A remark by this author was used for the epigraph of The Sun Also Rises and coined the term “Lost Generation.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. ■END■

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