Michael Palmer's Codes Appearing rescues from limbo three of his most beautiful poetry volumes: Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, and Sun (1981, 1984, 1988, from North Point Press).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".

邁剋爾‧帕爾瑪（Michael Palmer），美國當代最著名詩人之一。他於1943年齣生在紐約市。他齣版的詩集包括：《布萊剋的牛頓》（1972）《環形門》（1974）《沒有音樂》（1977）《迴音湖筆記》（1981）《初形》（1984）《太陽》（1988）《在通道》（1996）《獅橋：1972－1995年詩選》（1998）《玻璃承諾》（2000）《密碼齣現：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。