Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed. From a discount bus tour family vacation to a cosmogony based on cheese, these poems accumulate around principles of contingency and revelation. 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. (From Brick Books)

Amy Ching-Yan Lam is a Toronto-based artist and writer. She is the author of Looty Goes to Heaven. Baby Book is her first collection of poetry.