You Are Happy

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 ... [able] to capture the natural world and yet to manage to make a larger statement.", 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."

You Are Happy has also been discussed by Poetry.

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