Signaletics |
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Author:
| Phillips, Emilia |
Series title: | Akron Series in Poetry Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-937378-56-1 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Akron Press, The
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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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.