by acclaimed maritime writer Liao Hung-Chi. Through his poetry, Liao considers the
life of fishermen, capturing their daily toils and their innermost feelings.
This book is also a precious record of language and culture. Poetry preserves the living
“tongue of the shore” and shines with luminous linguistic and ethnographic value.
Honed and resonant, these poems reveal the solitude and tenderness woven through
the rugged masculinity of seafaring life, and question the fragile ethics that tie the land
and humankind together.
Paired with illustrations by his daughter Olbee, the collection is a cross-generational
dialogue which, through their collaboration, helps sustain living memories of the sea.