INTRUSION

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Woman to Woman and Thanks to the Brothers: are two separate anthologies of poetry dealing with womens' issues and celebrating the positive spirit of the West Indian male respectively. Woman to Woman seeks to deal with the universal issues, which affect women. It discusses the joys and sorrows, heartaches and triumphs of motherhood, daughterhood, sisterhood, love and life. Themes with which every woman can identify Thanks to the Brothers proclaims the beauty of the spirit of the West Indian male and by extension the many dimensions of universal manhood. It is an open and honest assessment of the male gender given from the female perspective. Singly or taken as a whole these works are a celebration of life, love and humanity. They contain universal themes, which sometimes complement and at other times juxtapose each other, the positive and negative aspects of human relationships are represented with stark honesty. These two works transcend the borders of gender, race, culture and ethnicity, to touch the commonalties of all humanity.