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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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Michelle (Poet) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. John's, NL, Canada : Breakwater, [2020]
Subjects:
Goulet, Léon-Robert > Family.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Poetry.
Canadian poetry > Métis authors.
Canadian poetry > 21st century.
Métis > Canada > Ethnic identity > Poetry.
Métis > Canada > Biography > Poetry.
Métis > Genealogy > Poetry.
Folk dance music > Canada > Poetry.
Violin and piano music > Canada > Poetry.
Canadian poetry.
2000-2099
Biographical poetry.
Autobiographical poetry.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:181 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781550818536
1550818538