You Are Happy

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

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]

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.

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Library holdings of You Are Happy

[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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v t e Works by Margaret Atwood
Novels	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)
Short fiction 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)
Short stories	"Rape Fantasies" (1977) "The Resplendent Quetzal" (1977) "Happy Endings" (1983) "Unearthing Suite" (1983) "Freeforall" (1986)
Poetry 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)
Non-fiction	Survival (1972) Negotiating with the Dead (2002) Writing with Intent (2005) Payback (2008) Burning Questions (2022)
Film and television	Heaven on Earth (1987)

You Are Happy

Contents

You Are Happy

Songs of the transformed

Circe/Mud Poems

There is only one of everything

Reception

Further reading

References

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