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Joy Lanzendorfer

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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.”

by Joy Lanzendorfer via The New Yorker
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on October 13, 2023
Bohemian Tragedy

The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.

by Joy Lanzendorfer via Poetry Foundation on February 26, 2018

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