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Approaching Fire

Approaching Fire

$19.95

***THE MIRAMICHI READER‘S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD***
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... Read More
***THE MIRAMICHI READER‘S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD***
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.

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Page length: 192 Publication Date: 2020-10-14 Subjects: "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal",  Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd ISBN: 9781550818536

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ISBN: 9781550818536
Title: Approaching Fire
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Subject: "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal"
Contributor: "Michelle Porter (CA)"
Format: Paperback / softback | Trade paperback (US)
Price (CAD): 19.95
Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd
Imprint: Breakwater Books
ISBN13: 9781550818536
ISBN10: 1550818538
Publication Date: 20201014
Last Updated: 20201009
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***THE MIRAMICHI READER‘S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD***
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.

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Michelle Porter
Michelle Porter

MICHELLE PORTER is a Red River M?tis poet, journalist, and editor. She holds degrees in journalism, folklore, and geography (PhD). Her debut collection of poetry, Inquiries, was published by Breakwater in 2019. She?s won awards for her work in poetry and journalism, and has been published in literary journals, newspapers, and magazines across the country.?She lives in St. John?s.

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