{"product_id":"hand-over-hand-over-the-edge-of-the-world-9781946303011","title":"Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe prose poems in Patrick Swaney's debut collection, \u003cem\u003eHand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, are suspended between a world we think we know and a world where anything can happen. Manatees take over a bathtub, an egg becomes a kite, a man finds a warning in an empty lot and brings it home to raise with his wife. The absurdity at the heart of this collection is rooted in an impulse to examine the rituals of living. Using language that is disarmingly direct, these compact narratives consistently surprise and clarify. In their search for meaning, the poems find truths in the unexpected that remind us what we have in common. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Patrick Swaney's warm, strange, precise poems are causing me to rethink my\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erelationship with the line.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the tradition of Russell Edson, whose work this book brings to mind, these prose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems never fail to disorient, surprise and delight. Sly and disarming, they are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eintellectual queries couched as fabulist vignettes, which, at their best, reveal our\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eordinary world as the strange, absurd, mysterious experience it truly is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Mark Cox, author of Knowing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e YesYes Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946303011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d","brand":"Patrick Swaney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45419029856437,"sku":"9781946303011","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_07335d6f-5398-4cf7-b089-8fc86831e285.jpg?v=1748390670","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hand-over-hand-over-the-edge-of-the-world-9781946303011","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}