You Are Happy
First edition
AuthorMargaret Atwood
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPoetry
Published1974 (Oxford University Press)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages96
ISBN9780195402230
OCLC1160255

You Are Happy is a 1974 collection of poems by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

Contents

The book contains the following poems:

You Are Happy

Songs of the transformed

Circe/Mud Poems

• Composed of 24 unnamed poems

There is only one of everything

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

References

  1. ^ Thomas Lask (August 2, 1975). "A Work Lurking in the Lines". The New York Times. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  2. ^ Manijeh Mannani. "Margaret Atwood: The Poetry". canadian-writers.athabascau.ca. Athabasca University. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  3. ^ 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.

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