Reposted by Sasha Vasilyuk
I'm thrilled to share my first piece for The New Yorker. It's about the Beat poet Lenore Kandel, whose erotic poetry collection, The Love Book, led to San Francisco's last and longest obscenity trial. Read more about this story of censorship here:
newyorker.com
The Forgotten Poet at the Center of San Francisco’s Longest Obscenity Trial
Amid Reagan’s late-sixties crackdown on the California counterculture, a jury was tasked with deciding whether Lenore Kandel’s psychedelic sex poems had “redeeming social importance.”