The Miraculous Season Selected Poems by V.R. “Bunny” Lang
Rosa Campbell, Dorothea Lasky, and Jameson Fitzpatrick come together to celebrate a revelatory new collection of work by V. R. “Bunny” Lang.
Join us for a conversation with Rosa Campbell to celebrate the launch of The Miraculous Season Selected Poems by V.R. “Bunny” Lang, an exquisite collection of poems by the eccentric V. R. “Bunny” Lang, most of which are never-before-seen. She will be in conversation with Dorothea Lasky and Jameson Fitzpatrick, followed by a signing.
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A revelatory new collection of work by V. R. “Bunny” Lang, an eccentric, thrilling American poet revived from oblivion. The collection includes work from across Lang’s inimitable career, including many never-before-published poems.
In the archives of the Houghton Library at Harvard blazes the incandescent work of V.R. “Bunny” Lang (1924–56), the American poet and playwright whose name has been all but erased from literary history. The fiery nerve centre of the literary scene around mid-century Harvard, and best friend of the iconic New York School poet Frank O’Hara—who referred to her as "one of our finest poets"—Lang herself has languished in the shadows of American poetry for too long.
The Miraculous Season gathers some of Lang’s most startling, strange, and beautiful poetry, much of which has never been published before, drawing her into the spotlight at last. It includes an editor’s introduction by scholar and writer Rosa Campbell, on Lang’s fascinating and often hilariously eccentric life, devastatingly early death, and her rightful place in the canon of twentieth-century American poetry.
The Miraculous Season is a revelation of the true breadth and brilliance of Lang’s poetry, rediscovered and made available in print for the first time since 1975.
Rosa Campbell lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches poetry, poetics, and queer and feminist studies. Her first book, Pothos, a lyric essay/memoir about grief and houseplants, was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books, and she is the editor of The Miraculous Season: The Selected Poems of V.R. ‘Bunny’ Lang (Carcanet, 2024; forthcoming in North America with NYRB in July 2026). She is currently working on a critical biography of Lang and a book on the poetics of failure.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Mother (Wave Books), MEMORY (Semiotext(e)/Silver Press), and the forthcoming Katie (Harper Perennial). She lives in NYC and teaches poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts. Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of the poetry collection Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts, she teaches first-year writing at New York University.
Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of the poetry collection Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts, she teaches first-year writing at New York University.
Time: 6:00 pm EDT
Free!
