The Darwin Vampires, Patrick Chapman's fifth collection, draws on life, as much as on imagination, to explore themes of memory, death, fractured love, and the often-harrowing strangeness of the world around us. From the Pushcart-Prize-nominated title poem, with its dreamlike take on the evolution of the undead, through heartbreaking elegies for lost childhood innocence, to the final, affecting, sequence on mortality, The Darwin Vampires is an addictive and immersive experience that you'll want to return to again and again.