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In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor.
Weaving through multiple genres and traditions, Approaching Fire fashions a textual documentary of rescue and insight, and a glowing contemplation of the ways in which loss can generate unbridled renewal.
Author: Michelle Porter
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Published: 10/14/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781550818536
ISBN10: 1550818538
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | Indigenous
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Poetry | American | General