MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Perchik, Simon, 1923-
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1968
Volume: 5 item(s); 5 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Perchik, Simon".
Biography
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/›)
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See also contributions to Monks Pond, Volume 1.
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