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.