"The lucid voice of Juan Carlos Vázquez unveils dark worlds and unsettling inner landscapes with a profound emotional depth, always accompanied by humor, irony, and contemporaneity. His gift lies in bringing us closer to the truth of these worlds through exceptional narratives that encompass a wide range of emotional tones and nuances, meticulous language, and unwavering logic. Susana Medina (English writer).

A poetics of estrangement distinguishes these works by the poet Juan Carlos Vásquez, abundantly providing us with a new perspective to contemplate reality - or rather, realities, since they are multiple and interacting - beyond the usual guidelines for observing facts, characters, and circumstances. However, the poet's point of view does not operate by distancing itself from the context it traverses with its gaze. On the contrary, it fully immerses itself in the environment it explores, delving through the layers and substrates that compose it, to reveal its sections and highlight the peculiarities of what, at times, presents itself as fiction while being real, and vice versa. In this exploratory work, as dangerous as it is fascinating, Juan Carlos Vásquez dives without compasses, as explicitly indicated in his poem titled "Extra Mundo": "I will replace my reality with delirium," this alteration will involve leaving "many things aside." It's the moment to get ahead "of myself," as if I had lost my mind, "it will be a difficult and dangerous gamble that starts today." A risk that we, his readers, are thankful for him taking. "About the poetry of Juan Carlos Vásquez. Luis Benítez (Argentinian poet, narrator, essayist, and playwright)."

In a work written in such distant years, in altered and omnipresent states, every selection must be to some extent arbitrary. In his stories, micro-stories, chronicles, diaries, letters, and reflections, the protagonists complain incessantly. At times, they resort to "dreams, alcohol, and Thorazine," they add love, violence, emptiness, or excessive euphoria, and in the end, they discover the panacea in an experimental (and imaginary) desire called "contemplation," which leaves them spaced out for life. "Texts rescued from beneath the underground of many cities." Vásquez, in his satirical vein, "records 'sickened and disgusted antiheroes' [himself]." He seasons rest with stress and relaxation with the intrusions of the world that do not allow it. In that sense, the truth is that no details are spared, for example, when recounting his expeditions, although his desire to "hibernate" in a not-so-distant time is not without reason, it is a necessary "initiation," a matter of survival. The subconscious approach is one of the pleasures of reading this author; it lies in the tone with which he addresses his material. Thus, it exudes a sharp irony, and its resonances bring into focus the internal confrontation of the characters. Juan C. Vásquez wants to do away with the world of everyday life and any form of popular eagerness at all costs. A fabulous "dramatis personae." Gerard Basté (Catalan writer).

Few times has an author before managed to depict the skepticism of the contemporary man with such rawness as Venezuelan poet Juan Carlos Vásquez has. His verses shape a poetics of disillusionment, describing a "disenchanted" world where the few hopes that remained in the 20th century have transformed into the nightmares of the 21st century. The poet draws on the autobiographical - mostly his own poetry of the self - to illustrate, in the first person singular, the general "we" immersed in the perplexities of the present, a time threatened not only by painful reminiscences of the past or the blackmail of the future but also by the shadow it casts over the present, promising to ruin everything at any moment. In Vásquez's poetry, evil - which is a political evil (the objective par excellence) and at the same time subjective - is part of the very essence of this fateful now. Sharply, the author does not distance himself from what he observes but knows himself to be immersed in it as a constituent and principal part. Vásquez does not condescend to pity or simple disquietude; he does not have the gaze of the omniscient and detached observer who contemplates, judges, and moralizes contentedly. He has the vision of one who knows himself tainted by these same flaws, by the fact of being contemporary, and thus, he configures a general metaphor, applicable to the entire species: a cruelty in free verse, as well-crafted as it is poetically efficient. Luis Benítez (Argentine poet, narrator, essayist, and playwright).

Cultural and poetry activist, Juan Carlos Vásquez, a Venezuelan based in New York, offers us the opportunity to live life with the uncertainties it entails, which are part of our daily existence. The poet tells us, "unearth the void, launch oneself, feel so close despite the distance...". Vasquez's work is featured in various international anthologies. Mónica López Bordón (Columnist and Literary and Cultural Critic for the Puerta de Madrid weekly magazine (From 2003 to 2017).

The creative process of this author swings between life and work, travel, death, and the psychological exploration of characters and their constant wanderings in Juan Carlos Vásquez's narrative, serving as an unavoidable reference to life experiences. Short stories in length on the page, yet of infinite depth beyond the words. A scene in cinema is what you see; behind the camera, thousands of events unfold without spotlights, for that one scene that captures the eye. Juan Carlos's literary journey is the gasp of the pursued, trying to catch the next subway train. One who resists the senseless urgency of big cities but succumbs to them, to their earthy essence, thirsty for more. Wafi Salih (Venezuelan poet and writer).

Writers and poets like Moisés Cárdenas, Agmary Feder, and Juan Carlos Vásquez (for example) craft their creations under the mentioned "Righteous Orthodoxy." They possess talent and skillfully avoid succumbing to the temptation of the manneristic, covert, and "commercial window display" rupture. They understand that the option of "Anti-Literature" is not a legitimate countercultural expression in times when no one speaks after undoing themselves ethically and aesthetically.

Excerpt from the article: "Cárdenas Convicted for Having Achieved Literature" by the writer Alberto Jiménez Ure.

Through poetry, he found a means to express his uncertainty, to reclaim, to free himself from so much... A release in the face of the mystery that life holds. Since his childhood, writing was an act of reflection that prompted him to seek new forms. That's why he lives in constant pursuit, traveling, learning, immersing himself in experiences to satisfy his curiosity and desires. Life, love, sadness, death—these are the themes that attract him. In the streets of New York and San Francisco, he encountered intense human psychological traits and became involved in many of their stories. "Third Floor and Three Poems by Juan Carlos Vásquez (Resonancias Magazine, France)."

Juan Carlos Vásquez's poetry persistently tends towards abstraction and daydreaming. The poet transcribes his moods: he compares poetry to life and hell to desire. His dearest longing seems to be to grasp the unattainable, something he had before his eyes but his memory couldn't capture with the required precision. In the poem "La Fiesta," Juan Carlos Vásquez describes the images of wine bursting forth as a form of rescue (the yearning to escape loneliness) to set off fireworks that blind his eyes. "The dreamy poems of Juan Carlos Vásquez. Manuel Pinta. La Résonance Magazine, France."