Behn, Robin, The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach, Collins, 1992.

Bell is one of the dozens of writing teachers featured in this book, which can be useful in helping readers understand how a poem like “View” is put together.

Emoto, Masaru, The Hidden Message of Water, translated by David A. Thayne, Beyond Words Publishing, 2004.

Emoto is a Japanese philosopher and motivational speaker whose theory of hope, based on the fact that the common element of water transmits emotions and ideas, has become the center of international attention, in part because his photographs of water were featured in the 2004 film What the Bleep Do We Know! ?

Feinstein, Sascha, and Yusef Komunyakaa, eds., The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Indiana University Press, 1991-1996.

Although the style of “View” is Bell's alone, he is often grouped with poets from the “jazz poetry” tradition. This two-volume work explains...