Approaching Fire

By Michelle Porter

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In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the M?tis fiddler and performer L?on 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550818538
• ISBN13: 9781550818536
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"