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Dom Gabrielli studied literature at Edinburgh University and prepared for his doctorate in Paris and New York. In Paris, Gabrielli's passion for French literature and thought led him to begin writing, translating, and teaching. His published work includes translations of Battaille and Leiris. In the early 1990's, he left the academic world to travel and devote himself to writing, whilst pursuing various business ventures. Gabrielli currently lives in Paris and the Salento region of Southern Italy.

From ZIGGURAT BOOKS INTERNATIONAL: A confident first volume of poetry and prose by Dom Gabrielli that is rich in language and content. Gabrielli writes of man's vulnerability and brutality from a vantage that is entirely his own. He deconstructs the principles of 'literature' to find an open passage of feeling and thought, often while revealing the psychological aspects of the cultural landscape in which he has found himself. The struggle to be a poet amidst the desen-sitising atmosphere of our chaotic world dominates each encounter and relationship, be it with another person or yet another place, in this collection. Gabrielli's texts are counterpointed with the black and white prints of his brother Piers Faccini to give the book its own very particular visual fascination. With a foreword by Marcus Reichert, renowned painter, poet, and film-maker.  From the back cover of The Eyes of a Man: The exhilaration of living altogether openly through experience, be it illuminating or anguishing, is the catalyst for Gabrielli's writing. His work is an acknowledgement: our sensibility is undeniably at one with the poetry of the moment, whether that moment is  extended, as with the labours of the hands and the heart, or an abrupt termination of what we have come to know and embrace. The landscape that Gabrielli inhabits is a precarious but ultimately satisfying place.

Painting: Piers Faccini, The Prisoner, 2008

The Eyes of a Man: Selected Prose & Poetry of Dom Gabrielli ISBN 978-0-9561038-1-9 Author: Dom Gabrielli Foreword: Marcus Reichert Paintings & Prints: Piers Faccini Illustrated in black and white - 121pp Paperback 20 x 13 cms UK 12.95 / US 19.95 Available from Central Books Ltd., London and from The Book Depository

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Painting: Piers Faccini, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, 2003

"The Parallel Body comprises 43 poems. There are no titles, no obstacle to the flow between one poem and the next. I imagine a sea and poems as waves. I imagine a field and poems as gusts of wind. I imagine poems as love letters. The book begins with a series of questions to which there manifestly are no answers. Only the poems themselves can come close to unfolding these questions. Something secret emerges, something unspoken, something to be heard only in this body of wandering words." -- Dom Gabrielli "...good poetry, delicate and thoughtful, the kind I spontaneously enjoy." -- Tomas Segovia, Poet & Writer The Parallel Body ISBN 978-0-9561038-5-7 Poetry by Dom Gabrielli Drawings by Piers Faccini Illustrated in black and white - 80pp Paperback 20 x 13 cms UK 8.95 / US 15.95 Available from Central Books Ltd., London and from The Book Depository ON RELEASE FROM 1ST MARCH 2010

Drawings: Piers Faccini, Notebooks 1990-92

"why was I given                                  why held                                  why released from captivity                                  from what fountain at my side                                  inside me beside                                  a river of words and images..."                                  from The Parallel Body "A second fascinating collaboration by Dom Gabrielli, the poet, and his brother Piers Faccini, the painter. The life of the spirit as it is lived in its most essential form is the subject of The Parallel Body. Gabrielli's words ask us to give up the false myths of our civilisation for a wholly new recognition of what beauty and love might be. It is a work of discovery and, consequently, identification, both with the universal and the other. Confessedly writing at an unholy pace, Gabrielli grabs the moment and stamps its essence onto the page. He conquers time by simply obliterating it. Piers Faccini's images have this same disconcerting immediacy. His drawings are uncorrupted by academic conditioning and apparently without the slightest yearning for approval or recognition." -- Back Cover Copy, Ziggurat Books