Approaching Fire

Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Mâetis fiddler and performer Lâeon 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.

About the author

MICHELLE PORTER is a Red River Métis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Porter
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781550818536
• ISBN: 978-1-55081-853-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 201 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology