Prisoner of Love (Revised) and entirely unforgettable

and entirely unforgettable

Needed now more than ever

we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint

Will Flo succumb to the charms of the suavely cosmopolitan Mel Shirmer

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

Prisoner of Love (Revised) and entirely unforgettableStarting 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