The only woman to speak from the stage, Kandel defiantly read from "The Love Book". It was her 35th birthday, and McClure later stated, "The entire crowd of 20,000 or 30,000 people sang 'Happy Birthday' to her." Kandel published her only full-length book of poems, "Word Alchemy", in 1967. She was one of 15 people interviewed in "Voices from the Love Generation" (Little, Brown and Company, 1968). In 1976, Kandel recited a poem at the iconic concert The Last Waltz performed by The Band (but was not included in the film or soundtrack). In 1970, Kandel suffered massive spinal injuries in a motorcycle crash with her then-husband Billy "Sweet Wiliam" Fritsch (poet and member of the Hells Angels). Despite having to cope with excruciating pain for the remainder of her life, she continued to write and maintain social ties. She died at home on October 18, 2009, of complications from lung cancer, with which she had been diagnosed several weeks earlier. In 2012 "Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel" was published. It features 80 of her poems, many of which had never before been published. Kandel appears in the Digger film "Nowsreal" (1968), sewing a Hells Angel patch on William Fritsch's jacket. Kandel appears in the Kenneth Anger film "Invocation of My Demon Brother" (1969), with William Fritsch, smoking a marijuana cigarette contained in a miniature skull. In the 2013 film "Big Sur", Kandel is portrayed by Stana Katic. By Lenore Kandel  Anthologies featuring Kandel's work