Baby Book
by Amy Chingyan/ 林靜昕 LAM
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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 show more property and inheritance. Power is located in the senses, in wind: multiple and restless. show lessTags
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"Decades of no apologies or fake ones.
Decades of art about war.
Art that is fluent, rhetorically successful.
A beautifully carved wooden box.
That which blocks the truth is physical.
It’s a hot, stuck feeling in the body.
It’s a heavy heat. It’s a heavy box.
The physical remains physical.
The physical can be moved.
The physical can be destroyed.
When destroyed, it doesn’t disappear.
But it can be moved."
Decades of art about war.
Art that is fluent, rhetorically successful.
A beautifully carved wooden box.
That which blocks the truth is physical.
It’s a hot, stuck feeling in the body.
It’s a heavy heat. It’s a heavy box.
The physical remains physical.
The physical can be moved.
The physical can be destroyed.
When destroyed, it doesn’t disappear.
But it can be moved."
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