Metazoan Variations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781736009888)

Metazoan Variations is a glorious mash-up of Darwin's science, Aesop's fables, Jenny Holzer's Truisms, and Sylvia Plath's poetry. The reader encounters ants making bread, a farting cuckoo, a moose eating peanut butter sandwiches and other wonders. Each segment offers a pithy title, a compressed story, some scientific knowledge, and a moral. It's satisfying. Bendzela's tour de force produces a new taxonomy for the twenty-first century. Ellen Lansky, author of Suburban Heathens Bendzela's fretful farmer leaves us under no illusion that we humans aren't fully functioning parts of a universe ruled by natural selection's Red Queen. Michele Cheung, Southworth Planetarium, University of Southern Maine

Author: Mike Bendzela
ISBN-10: 1736009885
ISBN-13: 9781736009888
Publisher: Uncollected Press
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2020
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021