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Approaching Fire (Paperback)

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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.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781550818536
ISBN-10: 1550818538
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Publication Date: October 14th, 2020
Pages: 192
Language: English