FlowerSong Press has announced the publication of Language of the Wound is Love by award-winning Asian-American author, poet, editor, curator, and literary activist Megha Sood, set for release on March 10, 2025. Her second poetry collection with FlowerSong Press is a collection of poems reflecting the pain and loss of first-generation immigrants losing their primary language while trying to fit their hyphenated identities.
Language of the Wound is Love highlights 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,” “Language of the Wound is Love,” “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 version of realities during the pandemic and the longing effect on its social-emotional bonding.
This collection highlights Sood’s journey, giving it a voice, and strengthens the fact that every wound has a language that needs love and patience intermixed with sagacious interpretation.
Language of the Wound is Love is available for preorder here.
Megha Sood is an award-winning Asian-American author, poet, editor, and literary activist from New Jersey. Literary Partner with “Life in Quarantine” at Stanford University. Her four poetry collections include the award-winning My Body Lives Like a Threat (FlowerSong Press, 2022) and My Body is not an Apology (Finishing Lines Press, 2021). Sood has received support from Dodge Foundation, Pen Women, VONA, Kundiman, and Martha’s Vineyard Writing Institute.
Megha's 900+ works have been featured globally in print, online journals, public exhibits, and anthologies including the Poetry Society of New York, MS Magazine, NYPL, Pen Magazine, PBS American Portrait, NPR, WNYC Studio, etc, and numerous universities including Stanford University, Howard University, George Mason, Columbia.
Her poems and anthology “The Medusa Project” have been selected to be sent to the moon in 2025 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX. She is also Associate Editor of Brownstone Poets and Advocacy member of ArtPrideNJ.
