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The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel Tzvia BackPublish date:2/10/2026Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819502148ISBN-10:819502146UPC:9780819502148Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Parenting, Mental HealthBook Topic:MotherhoodProduct ID:SCXB5FP39Y

The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir

A lyric memoir about motherhood, depression, and writing

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819502148ISBN-10:819502146UPC:9780819502148Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Parenting, Mental HealthBook Topic:MotherhoodProduct ID:SCXB5FP39Y

RACHEL TZVIA BACK is a poet, translator and professor of literature. The author of 12 books, her poems and verse translations have received awards and recognitions, including the Times Literary Supplement Award, PEN Translation Prize, and Finalist for the National Poetry Award in Translation.


Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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