The Lion Bridge, Selected Poems 1972-1995 offers for the first time a comprehensive view of Michael Palmer's extraordinary poetry. Dense and haunting, analytic and lyrical, classical and profoundly avant-garde, Palmer's work has a matchless beauty, difficult to de scribe: as Common Knowledge remarked, "Even more than its music, it emanates silence". The poet himself has culled the 118 poems of The Lion Bridge from his great body of work. This generous chronological selection (taken from seven of his books: Blake's Newton, The Circular Gates, Without Music, Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, Sun, and At Passages), includes individual poems, selections from serial works, and one complete serial poem. Together the poems form a bridge, a kind of work-biography which takes a long look at an extraordinary achievement and gives a new view of a body of work as the poet himself wishes it to be seen. It also rescues from limbo much material that has gone out of print.

邁克爾‧帕爾瑪（Michael Palmer），美國當代最著名詩人之一。他於1943年出生在紐約市。他出版的詩集包括：《布萊克的牛頓》（1972）《環形門》（1974）《沒有音樂》（1977）《回音湖筆記》（1981）《初形》（1984）《太陽》（1988）《在通道》（1996）《獅橋：1972－1995年詩選》（1998）《玻璃承諾》（2000）《密碼出現：1979年－1988年詩選》（2001）。他獲得多項文學獎，自1999年起擔任美國詩人學會主席。現住舊金山。