You Are Happy
 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
[edit]The book contains the following poems:
You Are Happy
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]• Composed of 24 unnamed poems
There is only one of everything
[edit]- Eating fire
- Four auguries
- Head against white
- There is only one of everything
- Late August
- Book of ancestors
Reception
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 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.