Straight Jacket by Jessica Lowell Mason

$19.99

 

The poems in Straight Jacket document the profoundly subversive process of a woman who is saving her own life—or, in the words of feminist poet Robin Morgan, the process of a woman who is “going sane.” Jessica Lowell Mason, a self-described psychiatric industry survivor, has been to hell and back, and, with her fierce writing, she is marking the trail for others who have the courage to retrieve our stigmatized selves from a slough of hetero-patriarchal lies.

–Carolyn Gage, playwright and activist.

 

I do not read a lot of poetry, but this is phenomenal writing, and that would be enough, but it is rich in forbidden insights, revealing worlds of experience hidden from view with revelatory clarity. Pure genius: I’ve never seen anything like it.
–Max Dashu, Founder, Suppressed Histories Archives

 

JLM has written a chapbook that defies the reader to put it down. In a variety of poetic styles, she creates both a realistic and imaginative description of psychiatric malpractice and its impact on a sane woman incarcerated… in a place almost guaranteed to make one insane. This is poetry at its finest, fiercest, and fully-present.
–Kathleen Bryce Niles, Editor Emerita, The Comstock Review

 

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Straight Jacket

by Jessica Lowell Mason

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-63534-997-9

2019

Jessica Lowell Mason is a Ph.D. student in the Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at the University at Buffalo and a lecturer in the College Writing Program at Buffalo State College. A writer, educator, and performer, Jessica has worked for Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Ujima Theatre Co., Just Buffalo Literary Center, the Jewish Repertory Theatre, and Prometheus Books. Her scholarly interests center on women, literature, and madness. In 2014, Jessica was awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Some of her poems, articles, and reviews have been published by Sinister Wisdom, Lambda Literary, Gender Focus, The Comstock Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Lavender Review, Wilde Magazine, IthacaLit, The Feminist Wire, and Praeger. She is the co-founder of Madwomen in the Attic, a feminist mental health literacy organization in Buffalo, NY.

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