![]() ![]() The 2012 Editor’s Choice in the Akron Poetry Prize and a 2013 release from the University of Akron Press, Signaletics is titled after a 19th-century system of anthropometrical criminal identification developed by Alphonse Bertillon and based on nine measurements of the human body: height, wingspan, bust, length of the head, width of the head, right ear, left foot, left middle finger, and left forearm. ![]() 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 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. ![]()
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