And I wonder how could I forget Elizabeth Bishop - perhaps because she is also not contemporary.

But she writes from a such an interesting space: at once deeply closeted and fully free. It's like she went so deep into the Narnian closet that she became a queen there :)

Perfect description of her style from another great contemporary poet - Ernest Hilbert: "her poems are balanced like Alexander Calder mobiles, turning so subtly as to seem almost still at first, every element, every weight of meaning and song, poised flawlessly against the next. "