''You Are Happy'' is a 1974 collection of

poems Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

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writer Margaret Atwood.

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 or Mud Poems

*First prayer *Is/not *four evasions

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 ''

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'' called "Songs of the transformed" "a splendid series of animal poems ... bleto capture the natural world and yet to manage to make a larger statement.", and Manijeh Mannani of Athabasca University found that it "continue the same thread of feminist concerns f her previous poetrywith only the concluding poems of the collection reflecting the optimistic connotation inherent in the title." ''You Are Happy'' has also been discussed by ''

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

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Library holdings of ''You Are Happy''
{{DEFAULTSORT:You Are Happy 1974 poetry books Poetry by Margaret Atwood Canadian poetry collections Oxford University Press books

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