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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)

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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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This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/01/08 TL[c]from MertonThanks for sending the poems. I'd like to use these three in our first issue-- there are to be only   
 1968/01/no? other[x]to MertonFor Tom Merton Peace Si Perchik  [inscribed to Merton inside copy of <i>Twenty years of hands</i> - see "Family Room - Marginalia" for original]
 1968/03/16 TALSto MertonMONKS POND came today. Beautiful! It was very kind of you to take all 5. I appreciate that very   
 1968/04/12 TL[c]from MertonYes, I've thought about photopoems too, but never got around to doing it like that: what I have   
 1968/04/16 TLSto MertonOur letters crossed: seems I should have waited a few more days. Anyway, it's good to hear from   
        

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