Title: Intelligent, but not interesting.
Review: Julie Sheehan is an intelligent poet with a fine ear and an ability to craft a finely wrought line. And while I have no problem with formal poems, or even with Sheehan's ironic archaic voice, the content of the poems is not terribly interesting, and not at all moving. I admire her craft and I see her humor, however, most poems sound like a very clever, and very bored, English major looking for an assignment. I wish more poets of this generation had Julie Sheehan's linguistic ability and I especially wish that this poet had something to say.
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