Codes Appearing: Poems 1979-1988 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811214704)

Codes Appearing combines in a single volume three seminal and long unavailable collections by Michael Palmer. This volume rescues from limbo three of his most beautiful poetry volumes: Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, and Sun (1981, 1984, 1988). Making available a great deal of Palmer's most influential, exciting, and stunning work, Codes Appearing is a landmark volume. The significance of his writing is every day more recognized. "It is impossible," as The Boston Review noted, "to overstate Palmer's importance." "Michael Palmer, '" as Joshua Clover declared in The Village Voice, "is the most influential avant-gardist working, and perhaps the greatest poet of his generation.... And his books, including the essential '80s triptych of Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, and Sun, are organized not by story but by a dreamland of calculus and sway....[Palmer's] genius is for making the world strange again."

Author: Michael Palmer
ISBN-10: 0811214702
ISBN-13: 9780811214704
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2001
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/12/2001 pg. 87
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2001