ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction Koessler Distinguished Faculty Award

Koessler Distinguished Faculty Award

author of Work and Win with an Executive Coach

Only you can be you… The last page was my favorite part

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

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

ZOUNDS! children's nonfiction Koessler Distinguished Faculty AwardAleksander 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