| "The Skaters" | |
|---|---|
| by John Ashbery | |
.jpg) Cover of Art and Literature (No. 4) | |
| First published in | Art and Literature (No. 4) Autumn–Winter 1964 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Published in the collection Rivers and Mountains by Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
| Publication date | February 28, 1966 |
"The Skaters" is a 739-line long poem by American postmodern poet John Ashbery (b. 1927). Written from 1963 and in close to its final state in 1964, it was first published in Ashbery's fifth collection of poems, Rivers and Mountains published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston.[1][2][3]
- ^ Ashbery, John. Rivers and Mountains. (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966), 34-63.
- ^ Ford, Mark. "Chronology," in John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (New York: Library of America, 2008), 998.
- ^ The poem later appeared in Ashbery, John. Selected Poems. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 32-62; and in a compilation of Ashbery's first five books: Ashbery, John. The Mooring of Starting Out. (Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco, 1997), 194-223; and later in Collected Poems 1956-1987. (New York: Library of America, 2008), 147-178. Excerpts of the poem appeared in the Ashbery, John. Selected Poems. (New York: Viking Press, 1985), 71-79 and (London: Paladin, 1987), 75-83.