Distributed by YesYes Books and Ingram
Cover & Interior Design: Alban Fischer
Author Photo: Stacy Peters
$18 | 82 pages | ISBN: 978-1-946303-01-1
Poetry l Perfectbound | December 16, 2025
“Patrick Swaney’s warm, strange, precise poems are causing me to rethink my relationship with the line.”
—Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk
"In the tradition of Russell Edson, whose work this book brings to mind, the prose poems of Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World never fail to disorient, surprise and delight. Sly and disarming, they are intellectual queries couched as fabulist vignettes, which, at their best, reveal our ordinary world as the strange, absurd, mysterious experience it truly is."
—Mark Cox, author of Knowing
Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World
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About the author
PATRICK SWANEY is the author of Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World (YesYes Books, 2025). His poems have appeared in Boulevard, Conduit, the Indiana Review, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of English and writer-in-residence at Catawba College and lives in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
