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 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.” 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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