Had Dr. Dolittle fathered a prodigious daughter, she might well be behind the bizarre and entertaining personae found on the pages of Lindsay''s first-book bestiary... Lindsay''s dark-edged, sometimes creepy poems are also imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected and the challenging... . In work reminiscent of Amy Clampitt and of Albert Goldbarth, Lindsay weaves informed and moving lyric claims around scientific facts, lamenting extinct species or followin..
