“Brian Tracy’s Opaque Traveler takes us upon a journey across nocturnal landscapes that have been sculpted by myth and painted by dream. This album of dreams is also a book of mirrors, and in each reflection we see ourselves reckoning both the desires and experiences of our lives. To follow this traveler’s path, we are given to understand, is to seek to be changed.”
—David St. John
“Opaque Traveler is a dreamscape painted in poetry. At once lyrical and mythical, the sequence’s recurring images are layered until the reader is fluent in the language of Tracy’s visions, “a collection of images that pass beneath my brush like fish inside water...” These poems, however, are no nighttide clouds that dissipate and are forgotten upon awaking. They have meaning beyond the fragmentary, coalescing into a palpable, vivid, and compelling whole.”
—Jim Natal, author of Memory and Rain
“Ancient traditions around the world respect the dreamer and the dream life as an important source of wisdom and vitality. Big dreams contain our essence and the longings of the soul, expressed in the metaphors of myth. Brian Tracy’s lyrical record reveals the poetry inherent in dreaming and can inspire us to tune our inner ear to the dialogue between heart and mind, and carefully listen to the characters that emerge from our own darkness.”
—Dr. Catherine Svehla, mythologist and storyteller
