Painting Circles is a tightly written book of poems that knits together an assortment of dark subjets: loss of innocence, loss of God and faith, death and oblivion. The book outlines a process of redemption that is initiated with the poet's embrace of the void. Filling his spiritual canvas with circles, submerging his eyes in an acid bath of zeroes, he cleans his vision. Directing his thoughts to elemental things such as light, sound, water, night; by dismantling, and then reconstructing them, the poet remakes himself and the world.

A member of the Toronto literary scene since the late 1990's, Luciano Iacobelli is a Toronto poet, visual artist, editor, and cultural events organizer. He is the author of six full length collections of poetry: The Angel Notebook (2007), The Book of Disorders (2011), Painting Circles (2011), The Emu Dialogues (with Jens Kohler and Robert Marra, 2015), The Examined Life (2016), Dolor Midnight (2018). Noctograms is his seventh collection, and the work where his preoccupation with merging the literary with the visual is most fully realized.

Luciano Iacobelli's profile page

Julio Cesar Aguilar's profile page