Megha Sood’s “Language of the Wound is Love” Wins Second Place at TheBookFest Award
Congratulations to FlowerSong Press author Megha Sood on numerous appearances, interviews, readings, and a second-place book award at TheBookFest Awards for Language of the Wound is Love!
Read Megha’s latest interview with World Literature Today, “Taming the Disorder: A Conversation with Megha Sood.”
Click here to view all current Press Appearances for “Language of the Wound is Love.”
“Language of the Wound is Love” primarily deals with poems reflecting the pain and loss of first-generation immigrants losing their primary language while trying to fit their hyphenated identities. It highlights the fact that every wound inflicted because of gender or sexual-based discrimination, the feeling of loss and belonging of immigrant families, the pain of isolation during the pandemic, or discrimination based on gender or color, has a hunger for love. Its language is love. Love is the acceptance everyone is feverishly seeking in this topsy-turvy world, hence the title. This collection has been divided into five sections namely “Language Lost”, “Blood on Our Hands”, “Every Pain Has a Story”, “A Collective State of Disbelief ” and “Brotherhood”. The opening section “Language Lost” deals with the poems reflecting the pain and loss of first-generation immigrants losing their primary language while trying to fit their hyphenated identities. It talks about the pain deeply experienced by people of color and other minorities living in a racist and xenophobic society. The collection depicts the isolation felt by the world living their own version of realities during the pandemic and the longing effect on its social-emotional bonding. This collection highlights my journey, gives it a voice, and strengthens the fact that every wound has a language that needs love, and patience intermixed with sagacious interpretation.
