Take to the Highway

Bryce Milligan works in numerous genres from books for children and young adults to adult poetry and criticism. He has edited several critical reviews, directed the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's literature program and been the publisher, editor and book designer of Wings Press since 1995. He is also the author of six previous books of poetry.

“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