Synopses & Reviews
Julie Sheehan draws from nature guides and self-help books, weaves legal argot and street slang, and fills her work with "muscle, size, shadows, and nuance" (Linda Gregg).
Synopsis
Julie Sheehan draws from nature guides and self-help books, weaves legal argot and street slang, and fills her work with 'muscle, size, shadows, and nuance' (Linda Gregg).
Synopsis
Julie Sheehan draws from nature guides andself-help books, weaves legalargot and street slang, andfills her work with muscle, size,shadows, and nuance (Linda Gregg).
Synopsis
"Tender, sassy, quietly observant, deeply cutting ... a collection bursting with verbal and existential exuberance."--Billy Collins
About the Author
Julie Sheehan is author of three collections of poems, including Orient Point, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize and Bar Book. A NYFA Fellow in Poetry, Sheehan has also won the Paris Review Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, and the Whiting Writers Award. She lives on Long Island, New York, and teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.