Book Launch | Amy Ching-Yan Lam
Join artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam and guests Andrea Actis, Ido Radon, and Christian Vistan for the launch of Lam’s new poetry book, Baby Book.
Location
On Campus
Libby Leshgold Gallery / READ Bookstore
520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2 See on Map
Contact
READ Books | readbooks@ecuad.caOpen 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, a small but comfy house and maybe a dog, at the Richmond Art Gallery on view April 22 – June 11, 2023.
Free and open to the public.
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