Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik (born 1923, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American poet with published work dating from the 1960s. Perchik worked as an attorney before his retirement in 1980. Educated at New York University, Perchik now resides in East Hampton, New York. Library Journal has referred to Perchik as "the most widely published unknown poet in America... (November 15, 2000)" Best known for his highly personal, non-narrative style of poetry, Perchik's work has appeared in over 20 books, websites including jacketmagazine.com, and numerous print magazines, including The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Poetry (magazine), The Nation, North American Review, Beloit, and CLUTCH (magazine).

Selected Bibliography

* "Bomber's Moon" (1949, Self-published, written on a rented typewriter and printed on a rented mimeograph machine)
* "I Counted Only April" (1964, The Elizabeth Press)
* "Twenty Years of Hands" (1966, The Elizabeth Press)
* "Which Hand Holds The Brother" (1969, The Elizabeth Press)
* "Hands You Are Secretly Wearing" (1972, The Elizabeth Press)
* "Both Hands Screaming" (1975, The Elizabeth Press)
* "The Club Fits Either Hand" (1979, The Elizabeth Press)
* "Mr Lucky" (1984, Shearsman Books)
* "The Snowcat Poems 1980-81, To the Photographs of Robert Frank" (1984, Linwood Publishers)
* "Who Can Touch These Knots: New and Selected Poems" (1985, The Scarecrow Press)
* "The Gandolf Poems" (1988, White Pine Press)
* "Redeeming The Wings" (1991, Dusty Dog Press)
* "Birthmark" (1992, Flockophobic Press)
* "The Emptiness Between My Hands" (1993, Dusty Dog Press)
* "Letters to the Dead" (1993, St. Andrews College Press)
* "*" ("Shearsman 19") (1994, Shearsman Books)
* "These Hands Filled With Numbness" (1996, Dusty Dog Press)
* "Hands Collected 1949-1999" (2000, Pavement Saw Press)
* "Touching the Headstone" (2000, Stride Publications)
* "The Autochthon Poems" (2001, Split/Shift)
* "Rafts" (2007, Parsifal Editions)

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/simonthepoet Simon Perchik homepage]
* [http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/08/simon-perchik-is-attorney-whose-poems.html An Interview with Simon Perchik]
* [http://jacketmagazine.com/08/perch.html 8 Poems by Simon Perchik]
* [http://jacketmagazine.com/08/perchik-iv.html Simon Perchik in Conversation with David Baratier]
* [http://www.ganderpress.com/fall2008/names/Perchik.pdf 2 Recent Poems by Simon Perchik]