Maureen Alsop reads Simon Perchik

Any Perchik fan knows that his poetry deserves great acclaim. His poetry is a true poetry, one of spiritual value. It is elegy, honed yet ethereal.  Perchik’s craft is genuine and consistent. Abiding poems without titles and narrative lapses. This keeps a solid ear to the wheel for what feels right. All scaffolding is removed.  These are serious poems about love and loss: gentle and existential.

Poems read here by Maureen Alsop include:

First Poem:

“What you open leans against wood/ “32,” The Rosenblum Poems (Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2000).

Second Poem: 

“You spoonfed the dead”/ “D2,” D Poems (Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2016).

Third Poem: 

“You come here to bathe”/ “G8,” The Gibson Poems (Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2020).