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349 Index Poetry Los Angeles braids each poem within a discourse of affinities with other literary texts, with artworks in other media, and with historical events and personalities. Not every name or theme is cited in the Index, but every effort has been made throughout the triage process to guide the reader to locations in the book pertinent to a range of likely interests. Citations from Notes include only materials with commentary Acosta, Oscar Zeta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, 192 Alexander, Elizabeth,“Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration,” 166;“Stravinsky in L.A.,” 162—­ 67, 191; “Today’s News,” 166 Allen, Woody, L.A. as“Munchkin Land,” 10 Allman, John, Loew’s Triboro, 237 Alter, Robert, Imagined Cities, xiii, 85–­ 86 Ambassador Hotel, in Seidel, 96; in Rodríguez , 222 American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry, 189 American Poet at the Movies, The (Goldstein), 18 Amis, Martin, Money, 179 Angelou, Maya,“Riot: 60s,” 183 Angelyne, in works by Charles Baxter and Nik Van Brunt, 329 Anzaldúa, Gloria E., Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 192 Apocalypse Now (film), 174 Armstrong, Mary,“Freeway Shooting,” 140–­ 43 Ashbery, John, 18; Robert Peters on, 304 Auden, W.H., 67, 115; and Stravinsky, 164; The Enchafèd Flood, 260 Avalon (Catalina Island), 60, 85 Baca, Jimmy Santiago,“These Hands,” 211—­ 15 Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space, 224–­25 Baja California, 28, 204 Banham, Reyner, Los Angeles The Architecture of Four Ecologies, 121, 126—­ 28, 152, 159, 161, 163, 187 Barber, David,“Funicular,” 20 Barnard, Edward W.,“A Ballade of California ,” 158 Barnard, Rita,“the kitsch-­ space of Hollywood ,” 69 Barnes, Dick,“On a Painting by David Hockney ,” 253 Barnstone, Tony,“The Sermon on Los Angeles ,” 134 Barresi, Dorothy, American Fanatics, 154; “Some Questions We Might Ask,” 271—­ 77;“Surfing as Meditation,” 40, 329 350 Index Barthelme, Donald, City Life, xiii Baudelaire, Charles, 6, 173, Les Fleurs du mal, xiii, 9, 16; the artificial paradise, 96 Baxter, Charles, on Angelyne, 329; on Bukowski , 100 Baywatch, 42 Beach Boys, 33, 37;“Surfin’ USA,”“Surfer Girl,” (songs), 28 Beat Generation writers, 2, 48, 268; see Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder Beatles, The,“Money (That’s What I Want),” 178 Beckett, Samuel, The Unnameable, xiii; claustrophobic space, 226 Bel Air, and Seidel, 95–­ 98 Bellow, Saul, 5;“Him with His Foot in His Mouth,” 174 Bely, Andrei, Petersburg, xiii Benedict Canyon 256–­ 60 Benjamin, Walter, on Baudelaire, 119; on images from the past, 286; on presence, 77 Bernstein, Leonard S., xviii Betejman, John,“Slough,” 217 Beverly Hills, 258; media depictions of, 208; “Good Buy in Beverly Hills,” 205–­ 9 Bidart, Frank,“California Plush,” 122–­ 23, 139 Bishop, Elizabeth, 42;“Filling Station,” 281; “One Art,” 136 Biskind, Peter, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, 95 Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-­ American Writing, 183 Blade Runner (film), 298 Blake, William, America, 181, 187; The Four Zoas and Jerusalem, 51 Blanco, Richard, City of a Hundred Fires, 103 Bogle, Donald, 323 Bonaventure Hotel, 252 Bontemps, Arna, and Watts, 168, 322 Boogie Nights (film), 186 Borges, Jorge Luis, in Walcott’s“Summer Elegies,” 47 Boyle, T. C., The Tortilla Curtain, 182, 198, 321 Boyz N the Hood (film), 174, 184 Bradley, Adam, The Anthology of Rap, 187 Brando, Marlon, The Wild One (film), 51 Braudy, Leo, on the Hollywood sign, 137, 317 Brecht, Bertolt, 4, 6, 67;“Hollywood Elegies,” 68; in Coulette, 265 Brewer, Gay, on Bukowski, 119 Brooklyn Bridge, 2, 5, 26, 133, 152, 259 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 2, 103, 170;“Riot,” 183 Bryant, William Cullen, 6, 108 Buckley, Christopher,“Lost Angel,” 300 Bukowski, Charles, 23, 52, 100–­ 120, 159, 255, 292; adaptations, 100–­ 101;“beach trip,”112–­ 17;“born again,” 117–­ 19; devotion to L.A., 102; on freeway violence, 142; on Hemingway, 111; paratactic structure, 110;“To Hell with Robert Schumann,” 103–­ 10;“vulgarity” as issue, 110–­ 12; on Whitman, 107 Burden, Chris, Urban Light (installation), 331 Burning of Los Angeles, 137, 180–­ 83, 317, 321–­22 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 51; Childe Harold ’s Pilgrimage, 47; on“vulgarity,” 111 Cain, James M., 304; L.A.’s“best chance” to achieve greatness, 305; novels, 8;“Paradise , 8; rivalry of L.A. with Broadway, 311 California Crazy & Beyond, and Jarrell, 72 California Quarterly, xix, 4, 197 Calonne, David Stephen, on Bukowski, 314 Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, xiii Campbell, Joseph, Hero with a Thousand Faces, 157–­58 Capitol Records Tower, 123 Capra, Frank, Lost Horizon, 13–­14 Captain from Castile (film), 198 Carroll...

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