| Approaching Fire Contributor(s): Porter, Michelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550818538 ISBN-13: 9781550818536 Publisher: Breakwater Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2020445695 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD*** ***BMO WINTERSET AWARD LONGLIST*
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. |