Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik
Born	(1923-12-24)December 24, 1923 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	June 14, 2022(2022-06-14) (aged 98) New York City, U.S.
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Website
simonperchikpoet.com

Simon Perchik (December 24, 1923 – June 14, 2022)

On June 14, 2022, Perchik died surrounded by his family at the VA Hospital in New York City. He was 98.[2]^[3]

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)
• "Almost Rain" (2013, River Otter Press)
  ISBN 978-0983553069
• "D Poems" (2016, Penny University Press e-book)
• The Osiris Poems (2017, box of chalk)
  ISBN 978-0692628836
• Dreams I’ve Held – Uncollected Poems (1943-1979) (2021, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 979-8539893033
• The Family Of Man Poems (1982–1990) (2021, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 979-8674212379
• The Weston Poems (1991–1994) (2021, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 979-8671462067
• Paper The Sun (1995–1996) (2021, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 979-8675734801
• Peel The Sun (1997–1998) (2021, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 979-8675699681
• The D Poems (2016) (2020, Cholla Needles - print version)
  ISBN 978-1709780851
• The Reflection in a Glass Eye Poems (2018) (2020, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 979-8669460884
• The Gibson Poems (2019) (2019, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 978-1090858566
• The Rosenblum Poems (2020) (2020, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 978-1707244478
• The Elliott Erwitt Poems (2022) (2022, Cholla Needles)
  ISBN 979-8494057211