The Dark-Robed Mother

The Dark-Robed Mother is a striking blend of memoir and poetry, grappling with a cyclical "high-functioning" depression and its profound impact on self and family. It is also a modern descent into the underworld, reckoning with the myth of Demeter and Persephone as it unfolds through lived experience. Poet Rachel Tzvia Back draws on this ancient story of loss, return, and the aching bond between generations to illuminate her journey through decades of living, writing, and mothering with depressi