Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

"There were two wake-robins: Diane Wakoski and Lenore Kandel; the latter wailed out sex-challenge poems larger and louder than the men, who were still into cool."--from Tripmaster Monkey, by Maxine Hong Kingston; "After a flurry of publicity when The Love Book was declared obscene, Lenore Kandel sunk back beneath the frothy surface of public attention. She lay there on the streambed, a gold nugget gleaming in the shadows, for the diligent to find. Her modesty was immense, and her reticence to grandstand consigned her unfairly to the shadows. Now she is 'drifting down the wind as light,' and we are all illuminated by her." --Peter Coyote, actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall; "With her fresh, fleshly outspokenness and clear-speaking sensuousness, Lenore Kandel writes directly to us. She makes the shapes, the graces, the tastes, the fears, of her moment--and as ever, they are ours. She is here." --Michael McClure, poet and author of Scratching the Beat Surface; "There is a tradition in poetry--one that stretches back to its beginnings--that conflates sensuality, ecstasy, and the divine. Lenore carried this tradition for my generation and expounded it with a startling immediacy. She never spends an instant telling you how to get there; she takes you there, and shakes you until you experience the condition she describes." --Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon