The Novelist and Poet Dana Killmeyer Started Out My New Year...

last year right. If I remember correctly, it was her first novel (with its resonance of Jane Bowles for me!) I was reading and enjoying as 2007 became 2008.

She just missed me at the New Year this time, but is sending some new fruits-- poetry, I believe, and did she say a novel too?!.

I think of Che Elias and Dana Killmeyer as the strange fused halves of a great oracular creature. Sometimes each speaks in his or her own voice, sometimes they speak as one, and sometimes an otherworldly voice comes out of both of them.

They both have an email style I would describe as Pythian.

I love this about them!

For example, here is a strange poem Dana wrote back to me last night in response to a series of mundane lines I had dashed off in an email to her....I asked if I could post it here as a poem...I was Che-yabbing...and she Che-yabbed back...



     Poem


in response to line 1 Thanks
in response to line 2 I will try. I haven't listened to P5 in a few years and I'm not very good with trivia
in response to line 3 Che is trainable. Just be patient
in response to line 4 Only when he wants to date.
in response to line 5 He always wants to date. No joke.
in response to line 6 I know what it ain't
in response to line 7 Sounds kinky
in response to line 8 Named after Danielle Steele?
in response to line 9 or a long, drawn out way of saying 4
in response to line 10 Why I'd never. What do you take me for?
in response to line 11 Contrary
in response to line 12 Are you implying I'm troubled?
in response to line 13-17 You're polarized like that. Your wit appeals to both the young and the old.
in response to line 18 It IS!
in response to line 19 I have no idea what you're talking about. Normal?
in response to line 20 x.enophobic o.range b.leeder?

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---Dana Killmeyer