Take to the Highway

“Milligan is a poet’s poet. Wisdom becomes song as language becomes movement and desire becomes drive in these well-crafted poems. These meditations move us to where past and future fuse: in a father’s tools tied with a knot a son may never pull again, or a mother’s loss of her child’s name. Take to the Highway dares to answer the question, ‘Who are you again?’”—Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of Drive: The First Quartet and Sueño|“Take to the Highway is indeed about highways, but more crucially it’s about journeys, and about the intricate memory map of human consciousness. It’s a great pleasure to follow Bryce Milligan along side roads, detours, switchbacks, and eerily beckoning paths; and to encounter at the end a design, a destination, a questing mind at peace.”—Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo|“Streaming with wisdom and clear mind, Milligan unfolds muraled passages of consciousness come ‘asunder with some wild desire.’ In this shifting play of perception, memory, fast long-line and prose fevers, we are given the “Hallelujah” of envisioning, which is the diamond-eyed gift of this superb collection. Tour de force, necessary materials for the road ahead in these times.”—Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States