Drisana Deborah Jack, author of "Skin" newly published by House of Nehesi PublishersSt. Martin Book fair, June 3, 2006

Deborah, perhaps it's because my work with Haiti these last few years has been about such lost and death, that one line in your new book "Skin" touched such places. Thank you for the tool of combat, my sister. I shall commit it to memory .

"the presence of love is greater the absence of the body..." Drisana Deborah Jack, excerpt from her poem in Skins entitled "motherlines or breast-feeding the diaspora"