Title
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.
Copyright Note
This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Phillips, Emilia. Signaletics. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2013.
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
Comments
The attached excerpt includes two poems from the book, "Diaspora," and "The Ear: General Form & Separation of the Internal Windings."