I Will Not Bear You Sons - by Usha Akella (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A poem can glisten like a fresh wound. Usha Akella pays tribute to her own life and to that of other women. Writing from her Niyogi Brahmin sensibility with which she grew up, her poems are the medium for the unsilenced voice both of her own story and those of women across various cultures. She calls for a united womanhood in her poems dedicated to women violated through rape, caste, FGM, foot binding, mysticism, politics, terrorism, and other patriarchal abuses to the women who have triumphed against subjugation building new ways of being. Rage has not caste, needs no algorithm, light a pyre with it of chopped thumbs and scripted dreams.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"In<i> I Will Not Bear You Sons</i> poetry, the ordinary, and the extraordinary are all part of the same whole--spirituality. Usha Akella is an activist and a sage confronting us with images of oppression while the spirit of Sanskrit mantras runs in her veins. 'I wanted lakes to drink from, and they took the moisture from my body.' Here we have a narrator who pays attention to her emotions and ideas and speaks freely. Each part of this collection is an interrogation, forcing us to embrace what the poem is transforming. The poet makes Kali, the Virgin Mary, and Kim Kardashian dance the ordinary into divinity. Her poetic voice is secure in knowing she will not bear patriarchy any sons; instead, she will have patriarchy bear her words! These poems distil perennial wisdom and are charged with life and a brilliance that lends us humans, particularly women, a voice. The poet demands that we speak." --Marianela Medrano, Dominican poet, author of<i> Rooting: A Selection of Bilingual Poems</i><br><br>"Usha Akella writes with 'Sanskrit mantras in her veins, ' from an exceedingly broad perspective - as feminist, activist, organizer, poet-citizen, engaging an intellect profoundly contemporary with the times. She spans a long reach, from the looming questions and fears around our intense and out of control pandemic to India's National trauma in the Delhi rape case. 'Each of us is a naïve question as we always have been/curved like an embryo.' She probes, she thinks with each situation, she grapples with the world in all its manifestations, also as a mother, poised in anticipation of what may come, but always with a steady heart and hand and ear in poetry. One line sent chills up my spine, as she contemplates all kinds of extinctions. An image of Virginia Woolf 'inching into the Ouse.' We are truly at precipice and this poetry can help wake up the world to itself. Kudos." --Anne Waldman, US poet, author of <i>Trickster Feminism</i> and<i> Extinction Aria</i> <p/><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Usha Akella</b> has authored four books of poetry, one chapbook, and scripted/produced two musical dramas. She earned a Master of Studies (Mst) in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the founder of Matwaala (www.matwaala.com) and hosts www.the-pov.com, an interview and conversations website. Matwaala is the first South Asian Diaspora Poets Festival in the US that she co-directs with Pramila Venkateswaran. She is also the founder of the Poetry Caravan in New York and Austin.
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