"These are poems that can't relax. Vivid and spare, bright and sparse, sensually alert, but not languorous—think of them as love poems in a nervous world, for even when 'love' is not their obvious subject, this book pivots around the way its practice is constantly interrupted by the sharp intrusions of everything from global warming to random murder, as though these exterior events make the building of even the human next a more precarious enterprise." —Poetry International "Damage is remarkably fearless in its address of the modern emotional terrain. Brogan's writing is scintillating, rich, and exciting in its vision. We hear a fresh voice at work in these poems." —Cynthia Hogue, Bucknell University "There are many beautiful moments in Jacque Vaught Brogan's work, moments of striking imagination and music. Brogan has a talent, an ear, an eye, and knowledge of the tradition . . . readers will be charmed by the fresh imagery, the passion, and the tightness of her poems." —Aliki Barnstone, University of Nevada, Las Vegas