SFPD's '60s-era obscenity squad wouldn't approve of reading 'The Love Book' on Valentine's Day — or any day.
Kandel was distraught but believed the decision would be reversed. “The truth will come out and prevail,” she said.As media coverage of the arrests and subsequent trial spread, sales of “The Love Book” soared to nearly 20,000 copies. Jeff Berner of the Stolen Paper Review, which published the book, said he had received orders from Los Angeles, London and Paris, and promised to donate 1% of the proceeds to San Francisco’s Police Retirement Association.
“It’s a breakthrough work of poetry, because it was the first time we saw a modern American poet, a poet who was a woman, who was willing to talk completely openly and enthusiastically about sex without any inhibitions,” Gerald Nicosia, a post-Beat poet and author of the Jack Kerouac biography “Memory Babe,” told SFGATE recently. “In the 1960s, it was almost unthinkable. It took great courage for her to do that. She was a real poet, and a real poet doesn’t hold anything.
An injury from a motorcycle accident in the 1970s caused Kandel’s physical health to deteriorate, and Nicasio said it became challenging for her to share her work with the public in the years leading up to her
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