Language of the Wound is Love

<p>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.</p>