<p><em>The Eleusinian Mysteries</em> is a poetic subversion of the ancient Greek myth of Persephone in which the young goddess abducted by Hades is not a passive victim but a cunning protagonist in her own right who actively resists the narrative that has historically held her captive. Over the course of a series of interrelated narrative poems she discovers the secrets of her mythological cosmos and ultimately rises to challenge the gods who rule it.</p>