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