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    612-822-4611

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Built from Staying

Built from Staying

Day, Lindsey

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798160065922
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 5 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Built from Staying is a collection about the quiet architecture of survival- the ways we learn to endure, the ways we lose ourselves in the process, and the courage it takes to remain long enough to find our way back.

Across three movements, Lindsey Day traces the distance between surviving and becoming: from the silence before a voice is found, through the uncertain process of learning safety, and into the difficult freedom of finally speaking from the self.

These poems live in the spaces between breaking and rebuilding, fear and tenderness, motherhood and identity, faith and doubt. They explore the armor we construct to survive, the bodies that forget how to breathe when danger has passed, and the strange work of discovering which parts of ourselves were shaped by survival- and which were always ours.

Built from Staying does not promise a perfect ending

Instead, it offers something quieter and perhaps more honest:

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