by Albert Goldbarth/Albert Goldbarth's innovative book examines Paris of the '20's through the comings and goings of one of the most striking characters of that brilliant time, Vander Clyde/Barbette, the lonesome youngster from Round Rock, Texas, and the brilliant entertainer celebrated by Cocteau, Janet Flanner and others. A combination of history, reportage, imagination, energetic prose and marvelous poetry, Different Fleshes is a daring achievement. ". . . a crazily associative narrative of remarkable inventiveness and energy"-Library Journal "Different Fleshes comes closest to recounting a historical narrative but . . . takes as much pleasure in pursuing a sheer wealth of suggestive tangents and backwaters in the material, merely because they are there . . . (This) habit of discovery is Goldbarth's own 'secret mark'; he is an encyclopedist of the imagination . . . ."-American Poetry Review