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Signaletics<\/em> 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 remove of a father, and the estrangement of the personal with the politics of one’s country.<\/p>\n

During a time when far too many young poets are publishing safe, dutiful, and emotionally arid verse, Emilia Phillips\u2019 gutsy and accomplished debut collection is especially welcome. [Their] poems are exquisitely crafted, filled with tough self-reckonings as well as learnedness\u2014and, above all, they are consummately strange. Signaletics<\/em> is an eerily outlandish Cabinet of Wonders, where our quotidian lives commingle with automata, \u201cthe speech of monkeys,\u201d the history of fingerprinting photography, and skin mags from the Eisenhower era. Phillips offers Cuisinart-ed allusions not for the sake of mere novelty, but as means of defying the essential estrangement that is our lot in contemporary culture. This is a very ambitious goal indeed.
\n\u2014David Wojahn<\/strong><\/p>\n

The contexts for the poems and sequences that make up Emilia Phillips\u2019s remarkable first book\u00a0Signaletics<\/em>\u2014literary, political, religious, autobiographical, and arguably most intriguing, the realm of forensics\u2014are in Phillips\u2019s hands a reminder that poetry itself is a forensic endeavor; part science, part argument, all in pursuit of a truth. [Their] work inventive, [their] formal range and flexibility admirable and always \u201cscalpel-edged,\u201d Emilia Phillips is an important new voice in contemporary poetry.
\n\u2014 Claudia Emerson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reviews & Interviews<\/h3>\n

Blackbird- https:\/\/blackbird.vcu.edu\/v13n1\/nonfiction\/beaven_c\/signaleticsreview_page.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

Green Mountains Review- http:\/\/greenmountainsreview.com\/review-of-signaletics-by-emilia-phillips\/<\/a><\/p>\n

ZYZZVA- https:\/\/www.zyzzyva.org\/2014\/01\/10\/the-remnants-of-the-dead-stir-minor-resurrections-emilia-philips-signaletics\/<\/a><\/p>\n

American Microreview & Interviews- http:\/\/www.americanmicroreviews.com\/signaletics-by-emilia-phillips<\/a><\/p>\n

The Tusculum Review- https:\/\/ttr.tusculum.edu\/2015\/05\/07\/matthew-pierce-book-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the author<\/h3>\n
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Emilia Phillips<\/h4>\n

Emilia Phillips is the author of two other poetry collections from the University of Akron Press,\u00a0Signaletics<\/em>\u00a0(2013) and\u00a0Groundspeed<\/em>(2016), and three chapbooks. Their poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni<\/em>,\u00a0Boston Review<\/em>,\u00a0Ploughshares<\/em>,\u00a0Poetry<\/em>, and elsewhere. They’re an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Emilia Phillips<\/h3>\n

Pages: 86; Size: 6 x 9
\nSeries: Akron Series in Poetry<\/p>\n

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