num_pages: 192
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 Leon 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.
language: English
title: Approaching Fire
publisher: University of Toronto Press