Joy Lanzendorfer on “The Love Book,” by the Beat poet Lenore Kandel, which became the subject of San Francisco’s last obscenity trial over a literary work.
Even as these arrests were happening, people were puzzled by the decision to target “The Love Book.” Although Kandel used plenty of four-letter words—a cycle of poems was titled “To Fuck with Love”—there was more salacious material around San Francisco. But Kandel was the victim of bad timing. Much like today’s challenged books—such as “Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe, or “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison—her work contains elements that some conservative factions felt threatened mainstream morality.
/ sacred the beautiful fuck.” “The Love Book” is Kandel’s romantic manifesto, the product, she said, of a twenty-three-year search for appropriate ways to worship “the divinity of man.” The obscenity trial began in April, 1967, and ran for five weeks. A jury of ten women and two men was tasked with deciding if the poetry had “redeeming social importance,” a nebulous concept resulting in sometimes absurd testimony.
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