He laments "I myself am hell" in his "Skunk Hour," while nautical imagery pervades the earlier poem "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket."
One of this man's poems compares his heart to the "blue kingfisher" that "dives on you in fire," while another speaks of our fathers who "fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones."  Both of those works appeared in a collection that featured ten revised poems from an earlier volume along with a poem revisited later in "Memories of West Street and Lepke."  "Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid" was among the poems in this author's third volume, The Mills of the Kavanaughs.  He wrote a trilogy of plays called The Old Glory followed by a collection that includes "Water," which concerns his earlier relationship with Elizabeth Bishop.  He laments "I myself am hell" in his "Skunk Hour," while nautical imagery pervades the earlier poem "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket." The author of Lord Weary's Castle, this is, for 10 points, what confessional poet best-known for the elegy "For the Union Dead."
One of this man's poems compares his heart to the "blue kingfisher" that "dives on you in fire," while another speaks of our fathers who "fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones."  
Robert Lowell (prompt on Lowell)