Magic Fox (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Welch
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
“Magic Fox” pictures the destruction of the traditional life of American Indians, especially the northern plains tribes, resulting from corruption by the European American culture. It is the opening poem in Riding the Earthboy 40 by James Welch, an American Indian of Blackfeet and Gros Ventre descent—his first book and only collection of poems.
Welch’s family leased forty acres of land from their neighbors, the Earthboy family, where James rode his horse when he was a boy. Riding the leased land may be symbolic of the American Indians’...
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