You Are Happy
Poem collection by Margaret Atwood
9780195402230You 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 ... [able] to capture the natural world and yet to manage to make a larger statement.",[1] and Manijeh Mannani of Athabasca University found that it "continue[s] the same thread of feminist concerns [of her previous poetry] with only the concluding poems of the collection reflecting the optimistic connotation inherent in the title."[2]
You Are Happy has also been discussed by Poetry.[3]
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.
External links
- Library holdings of You Are Happy
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Works by Margaret Atwood
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- Surfacing (1972)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- Life Before Man (1979)
- Bodily Harm (1981)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Cat's Eye (1988)
- The Robber Bride (1993)
- Alias Grace (1996)
- The Blind Assassin (2000)
- Oryx and Crake (2003)
- The Penelopiad (2005)
- The Year of the Flood (2009)
- MaddAddam (2013)
- The Heart Goes Last (2015)
- Hag-Seed (2016)
- The Testaments (2019)
collections
- Dancing Girls (1977)
- Murder in the Dark (1983)
- Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
- Wilderness Tips (1991)
- Good Bones (1992)
- Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
- The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
- The Tent (2006)
- Moral Disorder (2006)
- Stone Mattress (2014)
- Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
- "Rape Fantasies" (1977)
- "The Resplendent Quetzal" (1977)
- "Happy Endings" (1983)
- "Unearthing Suite" (1983)
- "Freeforall" (1986)
collections
- Double Persephone (1961)
- The Circle Game (1964)
- Expeditions (1965)
- Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
- The Animals in That Country (1968)
- The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
- Procedures for Underground (1970)
- Power Politics (1971)
- You Are Happy (1974)
- Two-Headed Poems (1978)
- True Stories (1981)
- Interlunar (1984)
- Morning in the Burned House (1995)
- The Door (2007)
- Dearly (2020)
- Survival (1972)
- Negotiating with the Dead (2002)
- Writing with Intent (2005)
- Payback (2008)
- Burning Questions (2022)
- Heaven on Earth (1987)
