THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SHORES

"Brian Tracy's exquisite poems evoke those "ghostlier demarcations" summoned by Wallace Stevens, another poet for whom the sea is muse.  Because Tracy is a poet of powerful restraint and beautiful nuance. The Distance Between Shores is a book of delicately suspended, liminal spaces, spaces in which one hears whispers from the other world as well as "the howl and hunger" of this one."  

Gail Wronsky, Director of Creative Writing Loyola Marymount University and author of Poems for Infidels and Dying for Beauty

 

"Brian Michael Tracy's elegant, meditative poems emerge from a landscape of mist and dream like lost beloveds. There's a quiet vigor and wisdom in this poet's work that comes from allowing the self to crawl inside silence and observe. The Distance Between Shores will astonish and fill you with the breath of life." 

Michelle Bitting, author of Good Friday Kiss and winner of the DeNovo First Book Award

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DRIVING WITH DANTE

“Meet Brian Tracy, a poet of impressive range and interests. His book begins with a series of meditative love poems. It expands to the comic and there are explorations of history, religion, and politics. We seem to meet the shade of Wallace Stevens and talk to Larry Levis. Finally we take a ride through the Los Angeles area with Dante at the wheel, culminating in a noir-ish, apocalyptic vision of the past, or is it the future?  Either way, it's quite a ride.”

Richard Garcia – Author of The Persistence of Objects and Rancho Notorious

“Brian Tracy’s poetry gives the reader that instant feeling of recognition derived from the realization that one has just encountered something universal, something uniquely human that resonates with all of us. It's at once sobering and uplifting, complex yet approachable, soothing yet provocative. It’s the kind of poetry that captures a piece of the essence of what it means to live life and connect into the commonenergy that binds us all.” 

Martin Hughes, Managing Editor Yogi Times Magazine