 First edition | |
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Poetry |
| Published | 1974 (Oxford University Press) |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 96 |
| ISBN | 9780195402230 |
| OCLC | 1160255 |
You Are Happy is a 1974 collection of poems by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
Contents
The book contains the following poems:
You Are Happy
- Newsreel: man and firing squad
- Useless
- Memory
- Chaos poem
- Gothic letter on a hot night
- November
- Repent
- Digging
- How
- Spring poem
- Tricks with mirrors
- You are happy
Songs of the transformed
- Pig song
- Bull song
- Rat song
- Crow song
- Song of the worms
- Owl song
- Siren song
- Song of the fox
- Song of the hen's head
- Corpse song
Circe/Mud Poems
• Composed of 24 unnamed poems
There is only one of everything
- Eating fire
- Four auguries
- Head against white
- There is only one of everything
- Late August
- Book of ancestors
Reception
A poetry review in The New York Times called "Songs of the transformed" "a splendid series of animal poems ... to capture the natural world and yet to manage to make a larger statement.", and Manijeh Mannani of Athabasca University found that it "continue the same thread of feminist concerns with only the concluding poems of the collection reflecting the optimistic connotation inherent in the title."
You Are Happy has also been discussed by Poetry.
Further reading
- Margaret Atwood's Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction (Sharon Rose Wilson) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Frozen Touch in You Are Happy : The Rapunzal Symdrome and The Girl Without Hands, in Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics (Sharon Rose Wilson) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- The Transculturation of Mythic Archetypes: Margaret Atwood's Circe, in Amaltea: Revista de Mitocritica (Vol. 7, 2015) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
References
- Thomas Lask (August 2, 1975). "A Work Lurking in the Lines". The New York Times. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- Manijeh Mannani. "Margaret Atwood: The Poetry". canadian-writers.athabascau.ca. Athabasca University. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- William H. Pritchard (February 1976). "Despairing at Styles". Poetry. The Poetry Foundation: 296, 297. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
a joyless collection that seems professionally committed to "badtiming" it.