Prisoner of Love (Revised) Needed now more than ever

Needed now more than ever

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

Diamond Sutra

leaves heartache in his wake

Prisoner of Love (Revised) Needed now more than everStarting 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