Title

Signaletics

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2013

Department

English

Abstract

Signaletics pits the measured against the immeasurable, the body against identity, and the political against the personal. With a defunct nineteenth-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 removal of a father, and the estrangement of the personal with the politics of her country.

Comments

The attached excerpt includes two poems from the book, "Diaspora," and "The Ear: General Form & Separation of the Internal Windings."

Required Publisher's Statement

Original version is available from the publisher at: http://www.uakron.edu/uapress/browse-books/book-details/index.dot?id=46682afa-b3b8-4a70-aa9b-368babc77dc4