This performance of joropo music and dancing was arranged to greet me at the
small airport in Barinas, Venezuela, when I arrived as part of the 9th Annual
Festival Mundial de Poesia, held in honor of poet and photographer Enrique
Hernandez d'Jesus. Sorry for the confusing turns of the camera. Joropo music
is played by three instruments, here as is traditional a harp, guitar, and
maracas. Barinas is in the south of Venezuela and on Los Llanos (flatlands) not
far from the Andes. A book of my poetry, Intencion y su materia, translated by
the wonderful Mexican poet, Maria Baranda, was published by Monte Avila Editores
and presented at the conference's main site in Caracas.
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