Darwin's Daughter

Darwins Daughter takes the advancement of science, the preservation of human morale and the observation of the human condition and places it under a microscope. Shearins 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 . . .