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Approaching Fire
Michelle Porter
Approaching Fire
Michelle Porter
***INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARDS 2021, PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH: CREATIVE NON-FICTION AND LIFE-WRITING: FINALIST***
***FIRST NATION COMMUNITIES READ AWARDS 2021/22: LONGLIST***
***NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS, REGIONAL (NON-FICTION): FINALIST***
***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD***
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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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 14, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9781550818536 |
Publishers | Breakwater Books |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 132 × 201 × 15 mm · 249 g |
Language | English |
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