- Lenore Kandel
Lenore Kandel (born 1932) is a
poet who was briefly notorious as the author of a short book of poetry, "The Love Book", a small pamphlet of 8 pages with 4 poems, including "To Fuck with Love" which was prosecuted forobscenity in 1967 inSan Francisco during thehippie movement inHaight-Ashbury .She was a speaker at the
Human Be-In inGolden Gate Park ,January 14 ,1967 . She was one of 15 people interviewed in "Voices from the Love Generation". She published one other book of poems, "Word Alchemy" in 1967, but is known to have continued writing throughout her life. She appears in theKenneth Anger filmInvocation of My Demon Brother , smoking a marijuana cigarette contained in a miniature skull.She is considered by some to be one of the major poets of the 20th century, but is generally unknown and underappreciated. Volume 1, No. 1 of the internet literary and erotic magazine, "
The Divine Animal ", features Lenore Kandel and her work [http://www.divineanimal.com/cover.htm] .External links
* [http://www.divineanimal.com/contents.htm Table of Contents, Volume 1, No. 1 The Divine Animal]
* [http://www.divineanimal.com/lenore_kandel.htm Introduction to Lenore Kandel]
* [http://www.divineanimal.com/yates_article_on_kandel.htm Lenore Kandel: A Critical Appreciation]
* [http://www.divineanimal.com/kandel_poetry.htm Three poems]
*worldcat id|id=lccn-n87-922814Further reading
* Lenore Kandel, "The Love Book", Stolen Paper Review, San Francisco, 1966, paperbound, 8 pages (available on ABE)
* [http://superstitionstreet.com/ Limited edition of The Love Book published in 2003] ISBN 0-9665313-1-0
* Lenore Kandel, " Word Alchemy", Evergreen, Grove Press, trade paperback ISBN 1-299-22275-7
* Edited by Leonard Wolf, in collaboration with Deborah Wolf, "Voices from the Love Generation", Little Brown and Co, 1968, hardcover, 283 pages, Interviews in Haight-Ashbury
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