THE THORN ROSARY - Selected Prose Poems and New (1998-2010)

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A curated collection of Eileen R. Tabios’s selected prose poems and new work spanning 1998 to 2010, presented with an introduction by Thomas Fink and an afterword by Joi Barrios. The volume gathers a wide range of poetic voices and forms, including meditations on loss, language, identity, and memory, alongside experimental pieces such as verse essays and hybrid entries. Supporting materials include publication notes, cataloging details, grants acknowledgment, and a structured contents section guiding readers through the anthology’s key sequences.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages288

Reading Time7 h 24 min

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Introduction by Thomas Fink

BEYOND LIFE SENTENCES (1998)

Returning The Borrowed Tongue from Life Sentences

The Forced Departure

Blocked

A Terrible Lucidity

Pollen

Just Be

Vietnam Today

Badlands

Billy

Re. Certainty

A Childhood Aftermath

Unrequited

Reciprocation

The Poem Rides Its Own Melting

Consolation

Say Homunculi

ECSTATIC MUTATIONS: EXPERIMENTS IN THE

THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems and New (1998-2010) THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems and New (1998-2010) By Eileen R. Tabios Selected, with an Introduction, by Thomas Fink Afterword by Joi Barrios PREVIOUSLY BY EILEEN R. TABIOS POETRY After The Egyptians Determined The Shape of the World Is A Circle, 1996 Beyond Life Sentences, 1998 The Empty Flagpole (CD with guest artist Mei-mei Berssenbrugge), 2000 Ecstatic Mutations (with short stories and essays), 2001 Reproductions of The Empty Flagpole, 2002 Menage a Trois With the 21st Century, 2004 The Estrus Gaze(s), 2005 Songs of the Colon, 2005 Post Bling Bling, 2005 I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved, 2005 The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. I, 2006 Dredging for Atlantis, 2006 It’s Curtains, 2006 SILENCES: The Autobiography of Loss, 2007 The Singer and Others: Flamenco Hay(na)ku, 2007 The Light SangAsIt Left Your Eyes: Our Autobiography, 2007 Nota Bene Eiswein, 2009 Footnotes to Algebra: Uncollected Poems 1995-2009, 2009 THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems and New 1998-2010, 2010 the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA (with j/j hastain), 2012 5 Shades of Gray, 2012 THE AWAKENING: A Long Poem Triptych & A Poetics Fragment, 2013 147 Million Orphans (MMXI-MML), 2014 44 RESURRECTIONS, 2014 SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems), 2014 I Forgot Light Burns, 2015 Duende in the Alleys, 2015 INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New (1996-2015), 2015 The Connoisseur of Alleys, 2016 The Gilded Age of Kickstarters, 2016 Excavating the Filipino in Me, 2016 I Forgot Ars Poetica, 2016 AMNESIA: Somebody’s Memoir, 2016 THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Prime’sAnti-Autobiography, 2017 Post-Ecstasy Mutations & On Green Lawn, The Scent of White, 2017 To BeAn Empire Is To Burn, 2017 If They Hadn’t Worn White Hoods …(with John Bloomberg-Rissman), 2017 What Shivering Monks Comprehend, 2017 YOUR FATHER IS BALD: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems, 2017 IMMIGRANT: Hay(na)ku & Other Poems InA NewLand, 2017 Comprehending Mortality (with John Bloomberg-Rissman), 2017 WINTER ON WALL STREET: A Novella-in-Verse, 2017 Making National Poetry Month Great Again, 2017 MANHATTAN: An Archaeology, 2017 Love In A Time of Belligerence, 2017 MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator, 2018 TANKA, Vol. I, 2018 HIRAETH: Tercets From The Last Archipelago, 2018 One, Two, Three: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems (Trans. Rebeka Lembo), 2018 THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry 2001-2019, 2019 The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019, 2019 / 2021 Witness in the Convex Mirror, 2019 Evocare: Collected Tankas (with Ayo Gutierrez and Brian Cain Aene), 2019 WEARE IT, 2019 Inculpatory Evidence: The Covid-19 Poems, 2020 La Vie erotique de l’art, 2021 Political Love, 2021 FICTION / PROSE Black Lightning: Poetry-In-Progress (poetry essays/interviews), 1998 My Romance (art essays with poems), 2002 Behind The Blue Canvas, 2004 The Blind Chatelaine’s Keys (biography with haybun), 2008 SILK EGG: Collected Novels 2009-2009, 2011 AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A Life in Poetry (2015-1995), 2015 PAGPAG: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora, 2020 DOVELION: A Fairy Tale for Our Times, 2021 Copyright 2010 Eileen R. Tabios Thanks to the Marsh Hawk Press collective of wise poets, especially my long-time MHP editor Thomas A. Fink without whom this project would not exist, as well as MHP Managing Editor Sandy McIntosh. Salamat to Joi Barrios-Leblanc for her generosity in writing her Afterword (and keeping it real by keeping it Filipina!) . A list of poets who have supported the formation and/or forms of my words would create a separate book-length list—thank you all!—and include Gemino Abad, William Allegrezza, Juaniyo Arcellana, Joey Ayala, Michelle Bautista, Tom Beckett, Meimei Berssenbrugge, Karina Bolasco, Nick Carbo, Reena Flores, Eric Gamalinda, Forrest Gander, Peter Ganick, Su

FAQs

What is the time span covered by this anthology?

The selected prose poems and new pieces span 1998 to 2010.

Who are the contributors to the book’s supporting commentary?

Thomas Fink provides the introduction, and Joi Barrios contributes an afterword.

What kinds of works does the table of contents indicate are included?

The contents lists themed sections that include prose-poem sequences and experimental components, such as “Beyond Life Sentences” and “Ecstatic Mutations.”

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