cover image Codes Appearing: Poems 1979-1988

Codes Appearing: Poems 1979-1988

Michael Palmer. New Directions Publishing Corporation, $19.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-0-8112-1470-4

Codes Appearing: Poems 1979-1988 will appeal to those left unsatisfied by Michael Palmer's The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995. It collects Palmer's three most best-known volumes, all originally from North Point Press: Notes for Echo Lake (1981), First Figure (1984, including ""Dearest Reader"": ""Dearest Reader there were trees/ formed of wire, broad entryways/ beneath balconies beneath spires...."") and Sun (1988). ( May 28)