ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction "- Megan Falley author of

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

author of Work and Win with an Executive Coach

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

a founder of the Denver Center for Anthropsophic Therapies in Denver

and the deep emotional ties we carry with us

ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction "- Megan Falley author ofAleksander 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