TRANSabdominal Retrieval: a (gender)queer Jewish quest to make an embryo

Advanced Praise for TRANSabdominal Retrieval

"This deeply personal experience highlights the body and spirit connection of a trans fertility journey. -Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, Editor of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

"In TRANSabdominal Retrieval: a (gender)queer Jewish quest to make an embryo, Teddy G. Goetz wields "bright and humming" language to illuminate what we inherit, what we pass on, what makes us who we are, and what makes a family, if what binds us to each other is not only genetics and blood. With devotional detail and transcendent expansiveness, these poems invite us into Goetz's journey- always searingly personal, always insisting on an unbridled collectivity. While marked by violence and medical disinterest, TRANSabdominal Retrieval orients us wildly, humanly, to the "abundance of potential for future life" that still exists and is enough. What a gift it is to read these poems, to be reminded of a robust lineage of trans and genderqueer love, to be reminded of "the temporary nature of 'impossible'". Whatever we dream of that was "previously unimaginable"-Goetz dares us to dream it." -Jody Chan

More about the author Teddy G. Goetz: teddygoetz.com

Published by Beyond The Veil Press: beyondtheveilpress.com