Two answers required. A poem by one of these authors drew heavily on one by the other that repeatedly laments “no special legend or God to refer to,” titled “My Friend, My Friend.” One of these poets described the other as having a “dead box of stones and spoons” and recalled a “sleepy drummer who beat on our eyes with an old story” in a poem appearing in the memoir The Barfly Ought to Sing. With George Starbuck, these two poets drank at the Ritz-Carlton after attending writing seminars organized by (*) Robert Lowell. The line “I have gone out, a possessed witch / haunting the black air” in a poem by one of these authors resembles the other’s image of a woman who rises “with my red hair” and “[eats] men like air.” For 10 points, name these two confessional poets who both committed suicide and who wrote, respectively, Ariel and The Awful Rowing Toward God. ■END■
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