A Trailer For Toby Goostree’s New Book of Poems,
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“These intimate poems weave together stories from the Book of Genesis, a couple’s labyrinthine journey through IVF, and the painful space between wanting and getting what we want. In the “empty circle” (“Anovulation”) where conception is a supreme effort, Old Testament stories of Adam and Eve, Leah and Rachel, Abraham and Isaac, flood in. We must confront profound questions of faith and belief in the midst of “setbacks, disappointments, even harm” (“Theodicy”). Goostree’s poems are a beautiful and deep dive into the nature of agency and powerlessness—the essential question of our epoch and that of every epoch before us.”
Valerie Martínez, author of COUNT, EACH AND HER, and ABSENCE, LUMINESCENT
About The Author
Toby Goostree’s poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Christianity and Literature, and Santa Clara Review among others. A graduate of The University of Arizona Writer’s Workshop, he lives in Kansas City, his hometown, where he owns a small financial planning practice.