"'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 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.