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Book Launch | Amy Ching-Yan Lam

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Image: Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Photo: Marvin Luvualu António

Join artist and guests , , and for the launch of Lam’s new poetry book, Baby Book.

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Location

On Campus

Libby Leshgold Gallery / READ Bookstore

520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2

Contact

READ Books | readbooks@ecuad.ca

Open to Public?

Yes

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.

This launch is presented by READ Books and the Richmond Art Gallery on the occasion of Amy Ching-Lam’s exhibition, , at the Richmond Art Gallery on view April 22 – June 11, 2023.

Free and open to the public.

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