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...published. A year later, he followed with Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair, a book that remains his most popular, with more than a million copies sold. It evokes an instinctive materialism based more on the senses than the intellect, and the flesh becomes identified with the sensuous geography of his native country: "I have been marking your body's white atlas/ with crosses of fire./ My mouth was a spider which crossed, hiding itself./ In you, behind you, fearful, thirsty...
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...onstage most phallically, rising like a glittering crocus out of a chalice that somewhat resembles those silvered bowls in which hotels serve grapefruit. He departs crucified on a Daliesque golden triangle that is slowly projected toward the audience by a hidden cherrypicker lift. In Jesus' company come a sweetly sensuous, cheek-kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King Herod?a queen in full drag. There is also the traitor Judas, played by a black whose considerable talent and limitless energy sometimes upstage Jesus. Clad in silver...
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