Jack Kerouac immortalized her in his novel "Big Sur. "A student of
Zen, she hung out with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg and was a
speaker at San Francisco's Human Be-In. But Lenore Kandel was no
muse or hanger-on; she was a brilliant lyric poet, often
unabashedly erotic, and that's where her legacy lies.
"Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel "contains 80 examples of her art,
from the "holy erotica" of her early years to later, more
contemplative works. Many of the poems have never been published,
others only in rare ephemeral publications. Some are explicit,
celebrating carnal love as part of the divine. Others are humorous
and cover more quotidian subjects. A recurring theme is the "divine
animal" duality. The collection includes poems written from the
early fifties up until Kandel's death.
The paradox of Lenore Kandel is that despite her prodigious talent,
she was one of the least read and critically appreciated of modern
poets. Kandel found her voice at a time when the Beat era was
giving way to the countercultural age, and though she straddled
both eras, it meant that she also fell through the cracks in terms
of recognition. Now for the first time the full range of her work
appears in one volume.
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