John Jay College of the City University of New York Staff, Crime and Justice in New York City, 1998-1999, McGraw Hill, 1998.

This handbook examines the crime problem in New York City thoroughly, its causes and effects. It also looks at the components of the criminal justice system including police, courts, probation, and the death penalty.

London, Herbert, Broken Apple: New York City in the 1980s, Transaction Publishers, 1989.

London examines the social and economic problems of New York City in the 1980s.

Mallarmé, Stephané, Collected Poems, translated by Henry Weinfield, University California Press, 1996.

This collection contains Mallarmé's poem "L'Azur," which influenced "Daylights".

McClatchey, J. D., ed., Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets, University of California Press, 1990.

This collection presents reviews and essays by well-known poets on painters.