Paris 60

Paris 60Paris 60 is sixty short entries, some fictionalized and some factual, recorded across a Paris spring and written against the template of Baudelaire's Paris Spleen. The number is the structure: sixty prose pieces, a modern poet's city set beside the nineteenth century one that named the prose poem. Jaffe wrote them on a two month sabbatical in 2008, working the city as a self styled flaneur and self acknowledged outsider. The book sits squarely in the

A book of short prose from the writer who spent his career shrinking fiction toward its essentials

The book reads ruins

The title states the editorial premise: "belighted" prose

the 1586 canvas in the Church of Santo Tomé in Toledo

The premise is small and unstable: two lovers at the entrance to a fragile relationship

named first what is rarest about the book: that it addresses schizophrenia from the subject position

Ashy Red Girl falls from the sky and re-enters Kimberly's brain

Meirose is a Somerville

sometimes asks questions

"in quite Midwestern fashion

with Darko taking to his bed and demanding of himself a new beginning — not the release of orgasm but a creative re-fertilization

Panic-stricken