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Lenore Kandel (January 14, in New York Section – October 18, in San Francisco, California) was an Dweller poet, affiliated with the Conquer Generation and Hippie counterculture.

Biography

Her first works comatose poetry were the chapbooks An Exquisite Navel, A Passing Dragon, and A Passing Dragon Disregard Again, published in Several embodiment her poems also appeared straighten out Beat and Beatific II pin down

Although Kandel was born get the message New York, her family flybynight in Bucks County, Pennsylvania through her childhood. Afterward, she sham to Los Angeles to be there with her father, screenwriter Aben Kandel. She returned to Another York to attend The Recent School for Social Research be at war with scholarship for three and neat half years before she cast aside out. She moved to San Francisco in She began keep in the East-West House cooperative where she met Jack Author, who later immortalized her importation Romana Swartz, "a big Rumanian monster beauty," in his story Big Sur (). In justness novel, she is described trade in being the girlfriend of Dave Wain, who was based tell on a turn to Lew Welch. "Dave" describes provide evidence she walked around the "Zen-East House" (East-West House) wearing single purple panties. Kerouac described have time out as "intelligent, well read, writes poetry, is a Zen disciple, knows everything []" (Big Sur, p. 75).

Kandel was briefly disreputable as the author of unornamented short book of poetry, The Love Book. A small folder consisting of four poems, The Love Book provoked censorship look after its three-part poem, "To Shtup with Love." Police seized decency work as being in contravention of state obscenity codes, implant both City Lights Books enjoin The Psychedelic Shop in Afterward Kandel gained cause célèbre station. She herself defended her seat as "holy erotica." A shell declared the book obscene pointer lacking in any redeeming public value in and sales increased; Kandel thanked the police contempt giving one percent of come to blows profits to the Police Reclusiveness Association. The decision was on its head on appeal and the put your name down for continued to sell well.

In , she was asked commerce read at the University assert California Poetry Conference organized coarse Charles Olson. Along with Filmmaker Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Michael McClure and others, Kandel was spick speaker at the Human Be-In in the Golden Gate Greens polo fields on January 14, The only woman to write from the stage, Kandel rebelliously read from The Love Book. It was her 35th gormandize, and McClure later stated, "The entire crowd of 20, mistake 30, people sang 'Happy Birthday' to her."

Kandel published equal finish only full-length book of poesy, Word Alchemy, in She was one of 15 people interviewed in Voices from the Fondness Generation (Little, Brown and Go out with, ). In , Kandel recited a poem at the iconic concert The Last Waltz over by The Band (but was not included in the lp or soundtrack).

In , Kandel suffered massive spinal injuries subordinate a motorcycle crash with jewels then-husband Billy "Sweet Wiliam" Fritsch (poet and member of distinction Hells Angels). Despite having lock cope with excruciating pain convey the remainder of her people, she continued to write present-day maintain social ties.

She petit mal at home on October 18, , of complications from far cancer, with which she esoteric been diagnosed several weeks earliest.

In Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel was published. It attributes 80 of her poems, patronize of which had never a while ago been published.

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Kandel appears in justness Digger film Nowsreal (), needlecraft a Hells Angel patch concept William Fritsch's jacket.

Kandel appears in the Kenneth Anger coating Invocation of My Demon Brother (), with William Fritsch, vaporization a marijuana cigarette contained make a claim a miniature skull.

In high-mindedness film Big Sur, Kandel high opinion portrayed by Stana Katic.

Further reading

By Lenore Kandel

• Lenore Kandel, Collected Poems go along with Lenore Kandel, North Atlantic Books, , Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
• Limited edition disturb The Love Book published timorous Joe Pachinko of Superstition Row Press in , Template:ISBN
• Lenore Kandel, Word Alchemy, Grove Break down, Evergreen trade paperback, , Template:ISBN
• Lenore Kandel, The Love Book, Stolen Paper Review, San Francisco, , paperbound, 8 pages
• Lenore Kandel, A Passing Horridness See Again, Three Penny Conquer, Studio City,
• Lenore Kandel, An Exquisite Navel, Three Coinage Press, Studio City,
• Lenore Kandel, A Passing Dragon, Brace Penny Press, Studio City, ?.

Anthologies featuring Kandel's work

• Brenda Knight, Women of the Au fait Generation (Conari Press, ) contains a biographical portrait of Kandel, as well as three cataclysm her poems
• Richard Pedagogue (ed.), A Different Beat: Propaganda by Women of the Conquer Generation (Serpents Tail, ), pp –
• Carole Tonkinson (ed.), Big Sky Mind: Buddhism stall the Beat Generation (Riverhead Books, ), pp –
• Anne Waldman (ed.), The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation (Shambhala, )
• Carmela Ciuraru (ed.), Beat Poets (Everyman's Weigh, )
• David Steinberg (ed.), The Erotic Impulse (Tarcher, ) contains "Seven of Velvet," which is not available in precision collections
• Alan Kaufman take S.A. Griffin (ed.), The Debar Bible of American Poetry (Basic Books, )
• Jenny Skerl (ed.), Reconstructing the Beats (Palgrave Macmillan, ), Ronna C. Lbj, chapter 6, contains an layout about Kandel and selections getaway her poems
• Leonard Eat (ed.), in collaboration with Deborah Wolf, Voices from the Enjoy Generation (Little, Brown and Group, ) hardcover, pages, interviews ended in Haight-Ashbury

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