Prisoner of Love (Revised) leaves heartache in his wake

leaves heartache in his wake

In this thought-provoking book

In this guided tour inside the artist's head

but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime

Diamond Sutra

Prisoner of Love (Revised) leaves heartache in his wakeStarting in 1970, Jean Genet petty thief, prostitute, modernist master spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time