Rare Book of the Day – The Love Book, Lenore Kandel. First Edition.

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The Love Book, Lenore Kandel. First Edition.


Lenore Kandel (1932-2009) was an American poet, primarily associated with the Beat Generation and hippie counterculture. She is generally not well known, as only two of her books were ever published. If she is discussed, its usually as being one of Gary Snyder's ex-girlfriends or as the character Ramona Swartz in Jack Kerouc's novel Big Sur. In 1966 she synthesized the essence of the Free Speech Movement and the nascent Hippie Movement/Love One Another vibe that was to grow into 1967's Summer of Love, writing and publishing this erotic masterpiece of modern poetry. The explicit language led to the book being confiscated by San Francisco police in November 1966, with raids on City Lights Bookstore and the Haight-Ashbury District's Psychedelic Shop which led to the arrest of three booksellers. The obscenity trial that followed was at the time the longest running trial in San Francisco history. That court's guilty verdict was appealed all the way to the California Supreme Court, which upheld the obscenity ruling in 1967. That conviction was overturned by a Federal District Court in 1974. This is the first printing:

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Ah LOVE this. I dont know much about her but want to find out now. Beautiful cover and love the poems too. Im intrigued.

I'm glad I piqued your interest! It's a gem

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