| Author: | Emilia Phillips | ISBN: | 9781937378561 |
| Publisher: | University of Akron Press | Publication: | October 15, 2013 |
| Imprint: | University of Akron Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Emilia Phillips |
| ISBN: | 9781937378561 |
| Publisher: | University of Akron Press |
| Publication: | October 15, 2013 |
| Imprint: | University of Akron Press |
| Language: | English |
Signaletics pits the measured against the immeasurable, the body against identity, and the political against the personal. With a defunct 19th-century body measurement system of criminal identification as a foundation, the poems move in and out of history, only to arrive at the immediate voice of a speaker, distraught about the death of a child brother, the remove of a father, and the estrangement of the personal with the politics of her country.
Signaletics pits the measured against the immeasurable, the body against identity, and the political against the personal. With a defunct 19th-century body measurement system of criminal identification as a foundation, the poems move in and out of history, only to arrive at the immediate voice of a speaker, distraught about the death of a child brother, the remove of a father, and the estrangement of the personal with the politics of her country.
