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Skunk Hour 'Skunk Hour' is one of Robert Lowell's most frequently anthologized poems. It was published in his groundbreaking book of poems, ''Life Studies,'' and is regarded as a key early example of Confessional poetry.〔 ''Groundbreaking Books'' from Poets.org website.(Poets.org )〕 ==Composition== 'Skunk Hour' was the final poem in ''Life Studies'', but it was the first to be completed.〔Robert Lowell in conversation with Al Alvarez, printed originally in ''The Review'' #8, August 1963, pages 36 – 40, and then collected in Ian Hamilton's ''The Modern Poet'' (1969), also included in ''Robert Lowell: Interviews and Memoirs'', edited by Jeffrey Meyers, University of Michigan, 1988.〕 Lowell began work on the poem in August 1957, and the poem was first published, alongside the poems "Man and Wife" and "Memories of West Street and Lepke" in the January 1958 issue of the ''Partisan Review''.〔Lowell, Robert. "On 'Skunk Hour'." ''Collected Prose''. New York: FS&G, 1987.〕 He describes the writing of it thus: "I began writing lines in a new style. No poem, however, got finished and soon I left off and tried to forget the whole headache. ... When I began writing 'Skunk Hour', I felt that most of what I knew about writing was a hindrance. The dedication is to Elizabeth Bishop, because re-reading her suggested a way of breaking through the shell of my old manner."〔Ostroff, Anthony, ''The Contemporary Poet as Artist and Critic'', Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1964. pages 107 – 110, quoted in ''Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art'', edited by Lloyd Schwartz, Sybil P Estess, University of Michigan, 1983.〕 The poem was in part based on Bishop's poem "Armadillo" and Lowell wrote that "her rhythms, idiom, images, and stanza structure seemed to belong to a later century... Both 'Skunk Hour' and 'The Armadillo' use short line stanzas, start with drifting description, and end with a single animal."〔Lowell, Robert. "On 'Skunk Hour'." ''Collected Prose''. New York: FS&G, 1987. 227.〕 In the same essay, Lowell describes the setting as "a declining Maine sea town. I move from the ocean inland."〔Lowell, Robert. "On 'Skunk Hour'." ''Collected Prose''. New York: 1987.〕
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