Prisoner of Love (Revised) Writing with urgency and rage

Writing with urgency and rage

In this guided tour inside the artist's head

leaves heartache in his wake

Last night

Diamond Sutra

Prisoner of Love (Revised) Writing with urgency and rageStarting 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