“My Body Lives Like a Threat” by Megha Sood Wins First Place Award in Contemporary Poetry with The Book Fest
Congratulations to FlowerSong Press author Megha Sood for her First Place Award in Contemporary Poetry with 2024 The Book Fest Awards for her debut collection My Body Lives Like a Threat (FlowerSong Press 2022)!
My Body Lives Like a Threat is a deep exposition of gender and color-based discrimination, sexual and reproductive rights violations, body politics, immigration, and the impact of a toxic political environment on the country and its people.
The full length has been divided into five sections namely “Black Truth”, “War and Peace”, “My Body is Not an Apology”, “A Just Immigration Policy” and “My Body Lives Like a Threat” which deals with the poems reflecting the blatant violation of human rights and the systemic oppression of the people of color in this country and around the world.
The book reflects how body politics never remains at an individual level but molds and morphs into a social monster birthing problems like human rights violations, immigration, gun violence, and racial discrimination. This collection is not only a reflection of individual rights violations but also addresses the human rights violations in today’s toxic political environment as a whole. This book highlights my journey, gives it a voice, and strengthens the fact that how the body is so central as a whole yet it remains invisible and still acts as a threat."—Christy E. O’Connor, creator of the sculpture entitled, “Carried Trauma," that graces the cover of Megha’s book.
