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Read an excerpt from one of our featured Classics, The Miraculous Season:
Poem (“Who, If I Cried”)
“Who, if I cried
Would hear me, among the angelic orders?”
Forest pavilion of thorns, I walked in,
Murmuring to unseen flowers, staring
At blood on my hands. Alone?
I was always alone, but there were, behind me,
Arrogant footsteps, and before me
Lusterless shadows and partial shapes.
So that I was uncertain, in my speaking,
So that I never knew, in my greeting,
That I spoke to myself with love, or that
My heart was decent, bleeding nakedly
To listening strangers.
From The Miraculous Season by V. R. ‘Bunny’ Lang
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, published in Lang's centenary year, is a revelation of the true breadth and brilliance of her poetry, rediscovered and made available in print for the first time since 1975.
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