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This is the story, recorded in 1975, of a poet and a movement that fueled the careers of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Edward Gorey. The segment includes recorded readings by the late Bunny, as well as interviews by Charles Ruas and poet Susan Howe with her colleagues Alison Lurie, Ashbery, and Mary Manning . Now celebrated writers and academics in their own right, the participants discuss the many moods and peculiar habits of Bunny, her influence, and her light and dark sides. V.R. "Bunny" Lang was a poet, playwright, and actress. She was the founding editor of the Chicago Review and was a pivotal player in the establishment of Cambridge's The Poets' Theater. She died in 1956 of Hodgkin's disease at the age of 32.