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The Skaters. I. These decibels. Are a kind of flagellation, an entity of sound. Into which being enters, and is apart. Their colors on a warm February day. Make for masses of inertia, and hips. Prod out of the violet-seeming into a new kind.
"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.
Jun 7, 2013 · By Harriet Staff. There are many people to thank for bringing out this landmark edition of Ashbery' s seminal poem "The Skaters" from his 1966 title Rivers and Mountains. We caught wind of it yesterday through Jacket2. What's in the package? This: In its current state, this edition offers:
The Skaters Excerpt Part II, from Rivers and Mountains (1966) Yet I shall never return to the past, that attic, Its sailboats are perhaps more beautiful than these, these I am leaning against, Spangled with diamonds and orange and purple stains, Bearing me once again in quest of the unknown.
Jun 10, 2013 · In its current state, this edition offers: – a plain text version of the poem, with optional display of the lines and stanza numbers; – the transcription of two typescript drafts of the poem, as well as 20 poems and fragments—18 of which are unpublished,—pertaining to the first typescript's dossier. The genetic dossier is displayed ...
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