Winner of the 2017 Notable Writers Book Award; finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize; six poems from this book were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Take to the Highway is a book about journeys and the intricate memory map of human consciousness. Much of the book was literally written while driving across the expanse of Texas. The poems embody family history, anticipate his mother's coming death, and embody the reflections of this poet's poet on a life lived along many roads within an interior landscape. Formal and yet deeply personal, the book dares to ask, in the words of reviewer Lorna Dee Cervantes, Who are you again? and "