"Jhak Valcourt is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. He is Haitian, writes chronicles, poems and stories in Spanish. He lives in the Dominican Republic, where he promotes other Caribbean and Afro-American writers. I say: he lives and writes with great courage, because (over)living and writing in Spanish, tracing the genealogies of the experiences of an Afro-Caribbean poet, is in itself a boldness, a gamble for the future and a constant anxiety under the surveillance of the cultural institutions of our countries. Jhak (over)lives them and evades them, leaving verses of light in his path. He poetizes exile, uprooted childhood, racist poverty and absence. But he tells not only of his own experience, but of that of an army of immigrants, war survivors, street workers, the damned of this earth. Not much has changed since 1961, Franz Fannon would say. What has changed is the voice of those who write about these subjects; the tones, the origins and the connection of that voice. Jhak is the poet we have been waiting for, heartbreaking and tender, fiercely connected to our reality as Afro-descendants, in solidarity with peoples suffering exile, violence and poverty; exquisite in the practice of a poetry that moves from within and changes the world already through his words." (Mayra Santos Febres)