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Approaching Fire
Approaching Fire | Michelle Porter
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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.
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Porter's writing is beautiful and deep as she explores her ancestry, digging into the life of her great grandfather Métis fiddler and performer Leon Robert Goulet. The way she writes so openly, yearning to connect was very soulful and riviting. This was so well written and structured. I loved the way she combined poetry, photographs, newspaper articles, oral histories, music and fire ecology to unfold this journey. It's truly a work of art.