Frank O'Hara lamented that "Now I am quietly waiting for / the catastrophe of my personality / to seem beautiful again, / and interesting, and modern," in a poem titled for this author.
Matthew Dickman included elegies for the suicide of his older brother in a 2012 collection titled for this poet's Revolver. A poem by this author ends with "Not a whisper," as "The universe sleeps, / a paw on its huge ear / lousy with stars." This author wrote that "A rhyme is a barrel of dynamite" and "a line is a fuse that's lit," "and by a stanza / a city / is blown to bits" in a poem framed as a lesson for tax collectors. Frank O'Hara lamented that "Now I am quietly waiting for / the catastrophe of my personality / to seem beautiful again, / and interesting, and modern," in a poem titled for this author. With three less prominent (*) co-signatories, this author promised to throw his countrymen "Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc… overboard from the Ship of Modernity," in a manifesto published as A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. For 10 points, name this poet of A Cloud in Trousers, a Russian Futurist author whose poems are often collected alongside his play The Bedbug.
Matthew Dickman included elegies for the suicide of his older brother in a 2012 collection titled for this poet's Revolver.
Vladimir Mayakovsky [or Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky]