I presented both collections of poems, ‘Moon in Love’ and ‘Moon Friend’, at an intimate event at the Ivan Vasov Theatre in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 29 June 2000.
Here you can access the video of the presentation of both poemaries, carried out in Spanish-Castilian and Bulgarian: https://youtu.be/i9Gwm30ol68
- From the beginning to minute 3 is the initial presentation with the owner of the Mísel publishing house, Kristo Slavov; and here I thank the Ivan Vasov theatre for hosting the presentation.
- From minute 3 to minute 19 is the reading of poems, first in Bulgarian, by the Bulgarian actress Vania Vencheva, and then in Spanish by me.
- From minute 19 to minute 22 the Bulgarian singer-songwriter Kostadin Georgiev, Kotzeto, Kalki, put music to the Bulgarian version of my poem ‘Flame in Astral’, a poem found on page 78 of ‘Moon in Love’.
- From the 22nd minute to the end, the Bulgarian singer-songwriter Vania Kostova honoured me by performing, in Rhodope dialect, a song dedicated to the moon, a song originating from the mountainous area of the Bulgarian Rhodopes. In my opinion, Vanya had the most wonderful voice I have ever heard, and I say had, because, unfortunately, she passed away in 2021:
In connection with the collections of poems I was interviewed twice in Bulgarian on Bulgarian television:
- On 4/07/2000 on Channel 2001: https://youtu.be/9t-qW8uhleY
- On 27/07/2000 on Nova TV: https://youtu.be/isIF71xGKtM
