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 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.
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