{"product_id":"pay-attention-pay-attention-a-signed-edition-by-lay","title":"Pay Attention (A Signed Edition) by Lay","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore it was a book, it was somewhere for the pain to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePay Attention grew from Lay’s early journals and poetry—from pages that held pain, questions, hope, faith, and the quiet work of surviving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLay’s journals became poems.\u003cbr\u003eThe poems became a book.\u003cbr\u003eThe book became evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach copy purchased here is signed by Lay and sent from the small remaining collection she has carried with her through the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf these pages feel like somewhere you have been too, Lay would be honored to sign one for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• One physical copy of Pay Attention\u003cbr\u003e• Signed by Lay\u003cbr\u003e• Carefully prepared for shipment\u003cbr\u003e• A piece of Lay’s creative history and the beginning of the larger Slayed Beyond Beautiful body of work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHISTORICAL BYLINE NOTE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePay Attention was originally published under the historical byline Walayee C. Whitlock. Lay’s present name is Walayee Ishway, and she creates publicly as Lay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47695649865906,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/2317\/9954\/files\/IMG-0730_6dd650f9-861b-4e37-b6b5-c5706b5f9865.jpg?v=1783516188","url":"https:\/\/slayedbeyondbeautiful.myshopify.com\/products\/pay-attention-pay-attention-a-signed-edition-by-lay","provider":"Slayed Beyond Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}