Codes appearing : poems 1979-1988
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Codes appearing : poems 1979-1988
（A New Directions paperbook, NDP914）
New Directions, 2001
Available at 1 libraries
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"Comprises three original editions from the North Point Press of San Francisco: Notes for Echo Lake (1981), First figure (1984), and Sun (1988)"--T.p. verso
Includes indexes
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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."
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