 First edition | |
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Poetry |
| Published | 1974 (Oxford University Press) |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 96 |
| ISBN | 9780195402230 |
| OCLC | 1160255 |
You Are Happy is a 1974 collection of poems by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.
The book contains the following poems:
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]
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
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a joyless collection that seems professionally committed to "badtiming" it.