ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction and the deep emotional ties

and the deep emotional ties we carry with us

Koessler Distinguished Faculty Award

"- Megan Falley author of Redhead and the Slaughter King (Write Bloody Publishing)

The research is extraordinary

ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction and the deep emotional tiesAleksander Zywicki's ZOUNDS!, chosen by Kevin Prufer as the winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize, is a meditative exploration of a lifelong relationship with God, religion, and devotion. "Zounds" is a contraction combining "God's" and "wounds," an early modern exclamation that often edges towards blasphemy, and a literal evocation of Christ's crucifixion wounds. In these poems of family, love, and longing, ZOUNDS! deftly captures the