The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed without much ceremony. “The Miraculous Season,” a selection of Lang’s verse, was published in the U.K. by Carcanet Press, but it will not appear in the U.S. until next April, under the aegis of NYRB Poets. In her native land, Lang remains half honored, at best, or guarded like a secret by a devoted few.