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 . . .