Simon Perchik 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

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, Perchik now resides in East Hampton, New York

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 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

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, and CLUTCH (magazine)

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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) (Second Edition, 2003)
• "Touching the Headstone" (2000, Stride Publications)
• "The Autochthon Poems" (2001, Split/Shift)
• "Rafts" (2007, Parsifal Editions)

External links

• Simon Perchik homepage
• An Interview with Simon Perchik
• 8 Poems by Simon Perchik
• Simon Perchik in Conversation with David Baratier
• 2 Recent Poems by Simon Perchik