Personal Effects

A collection of personal portraits and letters from the heart, presented with the power that only poetry can give them. In Personal Effects, Michael Bradford uses lyric poems and prose poems to create crystal clear demonstrations of their narrators' attention to, and affection for, their subjects. The language is everyday rather than elevated, the elements are ordinary not extraordinary, the feelings are familiar instead of farfetched, and yet they are fashioned together in ways that make the reader experience them with extraordinary clarity and an elevated awareness.