Simon Perchik Poetry Page

Biography

Personal
Born 1923 in Paterson, New Jersey
Married with 3 children, 4 grandchildren.

Education
Attended New York University (BA English, LLB Law).

Service
Pilot, 1st Lieutenant.

Occupation
From 1950 to 1975 engaged in the practice of private law. From 1975 to 1980 engaged as an Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County as its first Environmental Prosecutor. From 1980 to date retired to
write full time.

Bibliography

Magazines
Partisan Review, Poetry, The Nation, North American Review, Beloit, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Osiris, The Small Pond Magazine and The New Yorker among others.

Books
The Elizabeth Press:
I Counted Only April (1964)
Twenty Years of Hands (1966)
Which Hand Holds the Brother (1969)
Hands You Are Secretly Wearing (1972)
Both Hands Screaming (1975)
The Club Fits Either Hand (1979)

Linwood Publishers:
The Snowcat Poems - To The Photographs of
Robert Frank (1984)

Shearsman Books:
Mr. Lucky (1984)
Shearsman 19 (1994)

The Scarecrow Press:
Who Can Touch These Knots, New and
Selected Poems (1985)

White Pine Press:
The Gandolf Poems (1987)

Flockophobic Press:
Birthmark (1992)

Dusty Dog Press:
Redeeming the Wings (1991)
The Emptiness Between My Hands (1993)
These Hands Filled with Numbness (1996)

St. Andrews College Press:
Letters to the Dead (1993)

Pavement Saw Press:
Hands Collected (2000) (A reprinting of the above
16 books)

Stride Publications:
Touching the Headstone (2000)

Split/Shift:
The Autochthon Poems (2001)

Repositories:

Library of Congress, The Rare Book Collection.
Yale University Library, The Beinecke Rare Book &
Manuscript Collection.
Ohio State University Library, Avant Writing Collection.