You Are Happy [Margaret Atwood]

[Early Atwood] [Poetry] [Crucial]

You Are Happy

Margaret Atwood

Harper and Row, New York. 1974. First US edition. A tad bit of soiling to edges of text block, internally clean. An excellent copy.

From the publisher:

This is Margaret Atwood's sixth collection of poetry, her first since Power Politics. These new poems cover a wide range from the personal to the mythological, from the negative aspects of love to the joyously positive ones, from the spare to the sensuous, from satire to celebration. The journey from the first poem to the last is an intense and moving one, which takes the reader through the passionately felt experience of loss, through surprising metamorphoses, to a sense of fresh possibilities and expanded vision.

Quite powerful stuff; Atwood's poetry has the same visceral sensibility as her prose, but with a deeply felt inward focus. Highly recommended.