 Often associated with the Language poets, DiPalma was the co-author of "L E G E N D" (1980) with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman, which was the only book to actually appear under the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E imprint.His work was praised by such notable poets as Jackson MacLow and Robert Creeley.About his 1995 collection, "Motion of the Cypher", critic Marjorie Perloff has written, "These chiseled lyric meditations recall Wallace Stevens in their density, but they are written under the sign of Dada - appropriate for the late twentieth century, that casts a cold eye on the margins, the spaces between, where we live."