Nearly knocked me off my metaphoric stool.—Diann Blakely, Antioch Review When Julie Sheehan takes the lyric poem out for a few drinks, everyone winds up talking fast and loose. The lush, agreeably-out-of-style cocktails who take the stage in Bar Book . . . [pull] the reader through this artful, wry, and unlikely book’s tales of hearts on the rocks and hearts surviving.—Mark Doty | Bar Book by Julie Sheehan, Paperback | Indigo Chapters