Simon Perchik
Simon Perchik is an American poet who has been described by Library Journal as, "the most widely published unknown poet in America." Perchik worked as an attorney before his retirement in 1980. Educated at New York University, he now resides in East Hampton, New York. Best known for his highly personal, non-narrative style of poetry, Perchik's work has appeared in over 20 books, websites including Verse Daily, Jacket and numerous print magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Partisan Review, The Nation, North American Review, Weave Magazine, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, and CLUTCH. His poetry collection, Hands Collected was longlisted for the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry.Selected bibliography
- "Bomber's Moon"
- "I Counted Only April"
- "Twenty Years of Hands"
- "Which Hand Holds The Brother"
- "Hands You Are Secretly Wearing"
- "Both Hands Screaming"
- "The Club Fits Either Hand"
- "Mr Lucky"
- "The Snowcat Poems 1980-81, To the Photographs of Robert Frank"
- "Who Can Touch These Knots: New and Selected Poems"
- "The Gandolf Poems"
- "Redeeming The Wings"
- "Birthmark"
- "The Emptiness Between My Hands"
- "Letters to the Dead"
- "*"
- "These Hands Filled With Numbness"
- "Hands Collected 1949-1999"
- "Touching the Headstone"
- "The Autochthon Poems"
- "Rafts"
- "Almost Rain"
- "D Poems"
- The Osiris Poems
- The Gibson Poems
- The Rosenblum Poems
- The D Poems
Repositories
- Library of Congress, .
- Yale University Library, The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Collection.
- Ohio State University Library, .
