Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Perchik, Simon
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Perchik, Simon, 1923-
Other form(s) of name
- Simon Perchik
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1923-
History
Poet Simon Perchik was an attorney living in Staten Island, New York, at the time of writing to Merton. He was born in New Jersey and now resides in East Hampton, New York. As a young man, he worked as a milkman and served as a bomber pilot during the Second World War. Merton includes him in the first volume of «Monks Pond». In the November 15, 2000 «Library Journal», Perchik was described as "the most widely published unknown poet in America..." (Source: "Simon Perchik Poetry Page". Perchik's website. 2 Feb. 2006. ‹http://www.geocities.com/simonthepoet/›)