Alan WaId Michael de Larrabeiti, The Borribies.
Like the experiences of the poet's own life-the dissolution of his four marriages, the estrangement from his beloved son, the eclipse of his literary reputation after the 1930s and 1940s-the victory of the moment begins to be undermined by the disintegrating process of time at the very instant of triumph. In characteristic fashion Macleod cannot accept the historical triumph of Chief Joseph in 1877 as anything but a mark to be corroded away. But Macleod's ending for the story is different: tomorrow the son I then will be will renounce not only the men who were his anchor in the past but also his race, name, those poems he will never know, there fore he will die as I will die grey as the ultimatum motorized transport move upon, atomizing our tablet in this world's mind. He has gone down in the history books as a triumphant figure, primarily because of the role attributed to him (somewhat inaccurately) as the mastermind of the heroic fighting retreat of the Nez Perces as they sought to evade confinement in a reservation by escaping to Canada. Chief Joseph resisted orders to leave land that had been ceded to the United States government by a fraudulently-obtained treaty.
Macleod compares his role-as a poet, true to the original values of his generation-with that of the famed chief of a group of Nez Perce Indians. In his later, more philosophical, verse, the Western theme becomes transformed from mere nostalgia to a mood of lonely grandeur, as in "Chief Joseph the Nez Perce," one of the most moving poems in the entire collection. His natural resistance to the urbanized landscape of industrial capitalism is communicated quite early in the poem "Subway," in which Macleod describes himself as a moose, hamstrung and bloodied by the alien environment of New York City. But, as these poems make clear, a decisive factor was Macleod's early attempt to assimilate and preserve the Western experiences of his youth through his experiments as a regional poet. REVIEWS 111 vivendi, probably can't be disclosed short of a full-length biography. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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