Baby Book

By Amy Ching-Yan Lam

2023 Governor General's Award for Poetry Finalist* Longlisted 2024 Gerald Lampert Award* Longlist 2025 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry*

"God is personal," the astrologer said. Terrifying and also personal, like a baby.

Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed. From a family vacation on a discount bus tour to a cosmogony based on cheese, these poems accumulate around principles of contingency and revelation. Amy Ching-Yan Lam describes the vivid tactility of growth and death -- how everything is constantly, painfully remade -- offering a vision against the stuck narratives of property and inheritance. Power is located in the senses, in wind: multiple and restless.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771315962
• ISBN13: 9781771315968
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.4"