ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction founder of The Joy Project

founder of The Joy Project and co-founder of The Eating Disorder Voices Project

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

The research is extraordinary

author of Work and Win with an Executive Coach

But it is her ability to be at once subversive and optimistic radical and reassuring that makes this a must-read

ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction founder of The Joy ProjectAleksander 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