{"id":456,"date":"2019-07-21T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/?page_id=456"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:02:21","slug":"november-weather-spell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/?page_id=456","title":{"rendered":"November Weather Spell"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Published in September 2019 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company, November Weather Spell is my debut chapbook collection.<\/span>
Purchase November Weather Spell at Main Street Rag Bookstore<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Reviews of November Weather Spell:<\/span><\/h3>\r\n


Review be Liz Gauffreau<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Review by Evan Reibsome, published at Whale Road Review<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Back-cover Blurbs for <\/strong>November Weather Spell<\/strong><\/em>:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n
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I\u2019ve read these poems with acute pleasure, hearing the voice of a real poet. Robert Fillman has the intensity of vision that makes for good poetry, as description yields again and again to revelation. There is a pitch to his voice that is at once original and yet fully attuned to the past. Here is a poet who has read wide and thought deeply, and\u00a0<\/em>November Weather Spell, with its seasons of the spirit, introduces an important new poet to the world.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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~Jay Parini, author of\u00a0<\/strong>New and Collected Poems<\/strong><\/em>, 1975-2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Robert Fillman\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>November Weather Spell\u00a0is a poetic landscape of gritty survival. In his world, a little boy packs rocks into snowballs for revenge, an eccentric neighbor asks the devil to dispense of troublesome children, and a young man hears the song of a dead childhood friend. In this superb debut collection, Fillman intertwines memory and current narratives, all while reminding us of the emotional power of place.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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~Karen J. Weyant, author of <\/strong>Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Whether a raccoon run over by a car, \u201ctwitching like a defective \/\/ record, needle tripping \/\/ a groove,\u201d a mischief of schoolkids sporting rattails, a crazy neighbor, a dead cat, Elsie\u2014alluding to WCW\u2019s housekeeper and the famous poem\u2014or a hairdresser, Robert Fillman\u2019s vehicles for his poems in\u00a0<\/em>November Weather Spell\u00a0provoke us to see greater truths about the importance and dangers of influence and how we manage and mismanage our identities.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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~Adam Vines, author of\u00a0<\/strong>Out of Speech<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and editor of\u00a0<\/strong>Birmingham Poetry Review<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published in September 2019 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company, November Weather Spell is my debut chapbook collection.Purchase November Weather Spell at Main Street Rag Bookstore Reviews of November Weather Spell: Review be Liz Gauffreau Review by Evan Reibsome, published at Whale Road Review \u00a0 Back-cover Blurbs for November Weather Spell: I\u2019ve read these poems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-456","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertfillman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}