In 1968, an interview with Lenore Kandel was published in a book entitled Voices from the Love Generation. In a headnote to the Kandel interview, Leonard Wolf, editor of the volume, spoke of Kandel's reputation as a poet in these terms: "Lenore is famous as the author of The Love Book, a volume of poems seized as pornographic by the San Francisco police in 1966. The seizure produced instant fame for her. By many Haight-Ashbury residents, she is revered as the woman who taught us how to make love.'" Although too narrow a characterization of Kandel's work, the description is instructive and probably inevitable, for much of Kandel's notoriety derives from her erotic love poetry. While her published poems deal with a variety of subjects both within and without the Beat spectrum, it is for her poems celebrating the power of love, particularly physical love, that she has won...