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By the time View was published in Bell's collection Rampant, the author was recognized as one of America's foremost poets, having built a distinguished career over the course of forty years of publication. Reviewers generally greeted this book, his first collection of new works since his signature Dead Man series, with enthusiasm. A reviewer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer lauded Rampant as a lucid and affecting collection of real world poems, often enlivened by wisdom and humor. Publishers Weekly quoted extensively from View in its short review, illustrating the point that Bell's speaker looks at the world as if through a microscope . . . and the truths he extracts and extrapolates are cynical. Further, the reviewer notes, Bell's empathy for inanimate objects can be disingenuous, but it is also often felicitous and funny.
James Parker, writing about Rampant in the New York Times Book Review, calls the work an...
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