Renowned as a poetical heavy-hitter, A.G. Vazquez expresses himself in symbols and emotions – fleeting between eloquent musings and jarring honesty in equal measure. An artist of the unconventional, his work leaves the reader reeling and sobered, contemplating the very sanctity of all they hold dear.
One's journey through Vazquez's first collection – split into two fractions in a representation of bipolar disorder - reveals a glimpse inside a turbulent, hedonistic, and disordered mind. Beginning with melancholic reflection in "The Whitebook", the reader is soon thrown into the dizzying and self-destructive world of a psychotic, manic God, until collapsing into depression in "The Blackbook". There, lamentations of lost love, tragedy, and technological exhaustion connect to an all too familiar sensation of numbness and heartbreak.
