Driving With Dante - Tapa blanda

Brian Michael Tracy was born, raised and educated in Boston, MA. He received his BA from Stonehill College and his Master's in Urban Planning from Harvard University. He currently owns and manages a commercial real estate company in Los Angeles, CA. His work has appeared in Gentle Strength Quarterly and Yogi Times Magazine. He has also produced and recorded Midnight Tea, a CD of poems and songs.

The book begins with a series of meditative poems. It expands to the comic and there are explorations of 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 Los Angeles with Dante at the wheel, culminating in a noir-ish, apocalyptical vision of the past, or is it the future? Either way it's quite a ride. --Richard Garcia

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 is the kind of poetry that captures a piece of the essence of what it means to live life and connect into the common energy that binds us all. --Martin Hughes

Like Basho's elliptical vision of nature as truth, Brian Tracy's Driving With Dante pares down what it sees, placing the speaker somewhere 'between the seduction of the horizon / and a strange devotion to shore'; all the while paying homage to to time's landscape, each 'invisible kingdom' in our lives...aptly and beautifully reminding us that we must, every day, 'let gravity pass through our hearts / into memory, into music'. --Elena Karina Byrne