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Aleksander 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 experience of sonic and existential rupture, the wounds sustained in an enduring struggle with faith.

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Aleksander Zywicki was raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. He holds an MFA from The New School and his work appears in: Plume, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, Seneca Review, Shō Poetry Journal and elsewhere. Aleks has received a poetry fellowship from the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing and a teaching fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He teaches English and creative writing at The Hudson School.

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