Don't Live Like You Are Dying

By Cindy Baldwin

In this collection, Cindy Baldwin (winner of a Cybils Award for Poetry) explores what it means to live an embodied life: The intersection of illness, love, death, spiritual journeying, and storytelling, each viewed through the lens of lifelong disability. As a cystic fibrosis patient who has already outlived many life expectancies, Baldwin pushes back against the romanticization of a "live like you are dying" mindset, exploring instead the innate beauty of a quietly expansive life, one in which you have room to truly live in the world around you and notice each of its tiny, sublime wonders.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW9MYT18
• ISBN13: 9798232786472
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Forest Song Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"