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A Modern Poetry Library

John Ashbery: “The Skaters”

[from Rivers and Mountains, 1966]

– a critical and genetic digital edition –

The first typescript



[Page 23]


Ashbery: “The Skaters,” first typescript, page 23



III-C

Burning, sealing its way into my consciousness.





















































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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.
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