Darwin's Daughter

Darwin's Daughter takes the advancement of science, the preservation of human morale and the observation of the human condition and places it under a microscope. Shearin's artful word choice and prose phrasing makes her poems come alive. Readers will spend hours upon hours in this collection.

Escapes



Praise for the seven chimpanzees

at the Kansas City Zoo who fashioned



a ladder from branches; praise

for the eight monkeys in Brazil



who used stones to smash open

a lock. We need more penguins who



slide over thirteen foot walls

to plunge into Tokyo Bay . . .