Nostos
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2025
- Category
- Women Authors
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781990293931
- Publish Date
- May 2025
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
i came from the sea / first on fins then on fours
Taking its title from Ancient Greek, Tracy Wai de Boer’s Nostos is a hero’s journey rooted in the quest for selfhood from elemental beginnings to an unknowable end. “Nostos” translates to homecoming and is one of the root words of nostalgia; the other, “algos,” means pain, making nostalgia a painful return home. This etymology acts as guide for de Boer’s “i” when she imagines homecoming as less a moment of arrival and more about desire to move through pain and mystery in the formation of self. Nostos is an essential debut from one of Canada’s fastest rising poets.