HOMAGE | NEW & SELECTED
Travel Stories, Essays, and Poems
Emily Hiestand, 2025
Many of the works in Homage can be read on this site.


”Travel writing is a demanding genre. At its best, it is an exquisite mix of the personal, the philosophical and the factual — artfully propelled by vivid description. That's not an easy balance to achieve. But Emily Hiestand gets it just right.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer

“In these fresh accounts of far-flung locations, Hiestand keeps returning us to the profound questions of home.” — The San Jose Mercury News

“Dazzling, engaging poems…a bountiful group of superb poems. Like Gerard Manley Hopkins Hiestand praises the diversity of the world.” — Frances Mayes

”Language as continuous with the natural world” — ”One of the most valuable things about Hiestand's poems is their vision of human life, and of its most characteristic feature, language, as continuous with the natural world.  – The Boston Review

”Defining, broadening the window of reason“— “She examines the world under a scientist’s microscope, somewhat reminiscent of Dickenson, Moore, and Bishop before her.” — Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review

A print version of Homage is forthcoming in 2025.