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The Skaters
"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.〔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.〕
==Writing==
According to an interview Ashbery gave to ''The Paris Review'', he wrote the poem largely on typewriter.
when I was writing “The Skaters,” the lines became unmanageably long. I would forget the end of the line before I could get to it. It occurred to me that perhaps I should do this at the typewriter, because I can type faster than I can write. So I did, and that is mostly the way I have written ever since. Occasionally I write a poem in longhand to see whether I can still do it. I don't want to be forever bound to this machine.〔John Ashbery interviewed by Peter A. Stitt. (Interviews: John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33 ) in ''The Paris Review'' No. 90 (Winter 1983).〕
Ashbery later described the poem as "A meditation on my childhood which was rather solitary" and he often associated his childhood not as a painful experience but one of boredom.〔Ashbery, John. Interview with Janet Bloom and Robert Losada, in Packard, William (editor) ''The Craft of Poetry Interviews from The New York Quarterly''. (New York: Doubleday, 1974), 119.〕 Ashbery agreed with that boredom was formative to his art, similar in vein to the statement of Larry Rivers to fellow New York School poet Frank O'Hara that "the history of art and the history of each artist’s development are the response to the discomforts of boredom."〔〔Rivers, Larry and Weinstein, Arnold. ''What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Autobiography''. (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 113.〕
It is thought by several critics that the title "The Skaters" refers to a passage in British poet William Wordsworth's autobiographical long poem ''The Prelude'' (1805), or possibly to a passage by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau in ''Walden''〔Herd, David. ''John Ashbery and American Poetry''. (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000), 109.〕
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