Book excerpt: "THE THORN ROSARY gathers a selection of prose poems by Eileen R. Tabios that were released between 1998 and 2010 by publishers in the U.S., Philippines and Finland. While Ms. Tabios writes in many forms and actually created a popular minimalist poetic form called the "hay(na)ku", much of her work has been in prose poetry. The bulk of her first collection and recipient of the Philippines' National Book Award for Poetry, Beyond Life Sentences (1998), and the entirety of her first U.S.-published book, Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole (2002), are prose poems."--Provided by publisher.