These poems capture the trials and tribulations of youth born in Taiwan in the mid-90s. The red thread of hope-filled sorrow running through this collection holds despair at bay. Taiwanese born in the mid-1990s and later are often labeled the Generation of Weariness, the Loser Generation, the Young Poor, the Lying Flat Group, and the Strawberry Generation. But those deriding them as whiny brats fail to recognize how low wages and rising home prices have stunted their hopes of attaining success in life.
This poem collection centers on the lingering sorrow of youth and the expedient retreat taken into inner worlds in the face of life’s harsh realities. In spite of the bleak desolation of everyday life and struggle, the author strives to ignite an indomitable spiritual fire through poetry – the fire needed by every sorrowful soul to move forward in life.