ostrich tail, and will not scare."
This poet declared that "two poetries are ever competing, a cooked and a raw" in an acceptance speech for a 1960 National Book Award. This author wrote a poem that declares "the season's ill" because "we've lost our summer millionaire, who seemed to leap from an L. L. Bean catalogue." That poem, which is dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop, declares that "nobody's here" except an animal that "drops her (*)  ostrich tail, and will not scare." The speaker of another poem by this writer contemplates the shuttered South Boston Aquarium before reflecting that a Saint-Gaudens relief "sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat." A review of this man's  Life Studies  first described poetry as "confessional." For 10 points, name this author of "Skunk Hour" and "For the Union Dead."
This poet declared that "two poetries are ever competing, a cooked and a raw" in an acceptance speech for a 1960 National Book Award.
Robert  Lowell  [or Robert Traill Spence  Lowell  IV; or "Cal"  Lowell ] 