Jessy Randall. Because 
          Mona is in the Psychiatric Hospital. Columbus, Ohio: Pudding 
          House Publications, 2005. ISBN: 
          1-58998-379-3. Out of print, but sometimes available on the antiquarian market; also available digitally (for free) on Google Books.
          
        Because Mona 
          is in the Psychiatric Hospital, a chapbook collection of poems about 
          an imaginary character with bipolar disorder, is ... "evenly superb. 
          Every word a nail driven into the frame with one sure hard blow of the 
          hammer. Each nail five and a half inches apart. The rows of nails go 
          on and on."
        -- Alan Brilliant        
        "Read it—there 
          are many things which will resonate with you, whoever you are."
          -- Lyn Moir, Happenstance Press (read full review here)
        Read two of the 
          Mona poems in The 2River View,  
          here.
         Dwain Kitchell's Fish Poetry series includes a video version of "I Sleep in the Fish."
         
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