Pay Attention (A Signed Edition) by Lay

Before it was a book, it was somewhere for the pain to go.

Pay Attention grew from Lay’s early journals and poetry—from pages that held pain, questions, hope, faith, and the quiet work of surviving.

Originally published in 2012, Pay Attention gathers poetry shaped by lived experience, emotional honesty, pain, hope, and the desire to remain awake to one’s own life.

Lay’s journals became poems.
The poems became a book.
The book became evidence.

Each copy purchased here is signed by Lay and sent from the small remaining collection she has carried with her through the years.

If these pages feel like somewhere you have been too, Lay would be honored to sign one for you.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• One physical copy of Pay Attention
• Signed by Lay
• Carefully prepared for shipment
• A piece of Lay’s creative history and the beginning of the larger Slayed Beyond Beautiful body of work

HISTORICAL BYLINE NOTE

Pay Attention was originally published under the historical byline Walayee C. Whitlock. Lay’s present name is Walayee Ishway, and she creates publicly as Lay.