Text/​works

A Modern Poetry Library

John Ashbery: “The Skaters”

[from Rivers and Mountains, 1966]

– a critical and genetic digital edition –

Downloadable sources




XML-TEI files

  • “The Skaters” (1966 text)
  • First typescript
  • Unpublished poems and fragments
  • Second typescript

Searchable PDF files

  • “The Skaters” (1966 text)
  • First typescript
  • Unpublished poems and fragments
  • Second typescript

High resolution image files

  • First typescript [zip file, 407 mb]
  • Unpublished poems and fragments [zip file, 214 mb]
  • Second typescript [zip file, 53 mb]

Text

Read “The Skaters”
Listen to Ashbery’s reading of the poem
Download the text
(PDF | XML)

Genetic dossier

The first typescript
Unpublished poems and fragments from the first typescript
The second typescript

Critical edition

Editor's note
Note on the text
X-raying “The Skaters”:
semantic annotations
Index
Quantitative data

Sources & links

Downloadable sources
Text/voice aligned version of the poem (Pennsound)
An intertext of “The Skaters”: Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do (Archive.org)


“The Skaters,” from Rivers and Mountains, © 1966, 1977, 1997, 2008 by John Ashbery.
Unpublished manuscript and typescript materials, © 2013 by John Ashbery.

All other parts of this website are licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Creative Commons License Robin Seguy, 2013.