He wrote several volumes of poetry and also plays, essays, travel literature, a novel and translated, among others, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the poems of Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes into the Serbo-Croatian language.
[4] He stood trial in 1985 because of his essay Život za slobodu which presented the event in which the Yugoslav Partisans shot Mirko Šuštar and 50 other notable citizens of Dubrovnik, under the accusation that they aided Nazi Germany, which was never proven.
After his passport was returned, Milišić was able to travel to the United States as a poet-in-residence at New York University and Amherst College.
Milišić died on 5 October 1991, when a Yugoslav People's Army shell struck his kitchen in the first days of the Siege of Dubrovnik.
[6] His poetry and travel writing, some previously unpublished, some repackaged, has continued to be published in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, since his death.