Damage is an impressive collection of brief, free-verse poetry by Jacque Vaught Brogan (Professor of English and American Literature, University of Notre Dame) commemorating simple ideas and thoughts, with an open honesty that offers the refreshing charm of directness in its musings. "My memories of the many Octobers / I have held our love / have been rewritten, / have fallen now like the brown dried leaves / scurrying across dead ground, / as if loss leaves no trace of having happened- / as if damage isn't a slow fire / that continues to smoulder underground."