Hands Collected: The Books of Simon Perchik

With only one of Simon Perchik's 16 previous small-press releases in print, Hands Collected: The Books of Simon Perchik gives the work of Patterson, New Jersey's latter-day poetic son a more permanent form. Readers will find his signature use of the colon ("" only the moon :hope/ carved into each gravestone"") much in evidence in poems from I Counted Only April (1964) to These Hands Filled with Numbness (1996) and through to new work, ""again a brush sealing this boat/ as wings covered with sun/ sweeter than milk and lush sugar oil."" (Apr.)