(jopappy and the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk C.F. Cavafy

(jopappy and the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk C.F. Cavafymakalani bandele (jopappy and the sentence makers are) eponymous as funk is a frenetic multimedia jam session of discursive lyric arranged and produced by poems written in bandele's invented prose poetic form the unit. The form gets its inspiration from virtuoso pianist Cecil Taylor's groundbreaking 1966 album Unit Structures, insofar as it desires to embody the feel of collective improvisation encountered in Free Jazz as poetics. Through the

Achter alles zit een plan

vrees en verlangen continu op elkaar ingrijpen

as well as a folded

possibly future

and Peter Glassgold's collaged renderings of the poems reflect its history as much as they make it new

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher

and refract the changing realities and attractions of an all too human relationship

Zijn bundel Onmogelijk geluk behoort tot de succesvolste dichtbundels aller tijden

Stitched with brass wire

die ooit stadsdichter van Antwerpen was en wel vaker de kantjes van de poëzie afloopt

and confessionalism

een meisje vermoordt per ongeluk haar kip en de jonge asielzoeker met buigzame hoop is nergens veilig