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You Are Happy
Poem collection by Margaret Atwood From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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
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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]
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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)
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