Barrow Street Books, paperback
Publication Date: October 15, 2025
Publisher Marketing: Aleks Zywicki's ZOUNDS! 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! also captures the experience of sonic and existential rupture, the wounds sustained in an enduring struggle with faith.
