Baby Book

By Amy Ching-Yan Lam

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR 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 Incorporated
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.4"