Many thanks to Hollay Ghadery for interviewing Tracy Wai de Boer about her debut poetry collection NOSTOS in the Ricepaper magazine!
“Let’s start by talking about the title of your collection. There are many ideal, single-word jewels of titles in the book so I wanted to know the process of arriving at Nostos for the title to represent all the poems.
[T]he origin of the word “nostalgia” came early in the formation of this book. Nostos – meaning homecoming, algos, meaning pain, makes “nostalgia” a painful homecoming, or painful return home. Nostalgia (its sweetness, its painfulness, its ultimate helplessness and grief) were things I was moving through during the formation of this work, and I think that shows in many of the poems.”
Check out the full review here: Ricepaper: Writers on Writers
