Night Watch - Kevin Young

A Poetry Collection About Loss, Legacy And African American History, From The Poetry Editor Of The Yorkerwinner Of The 2026 Griffin Poetry Prizewinner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award For Poetry 2025'keeping Up With Him Is Like Trying To Keep Up With Bob Dylan Or Prince In Their Primes' York Timeskevin Youngs Poetry Collection, Written Over Sixteen Years, Tells Stories Of Community, Nationhood And Resistance, Inspired In Part By Other Lives. He Starts In The Bayous Of Louisiana, And Speaks From The Voices Of Millie And Christine Mccoy, The Conjoined African American 'carolina Twins' - Born Into Enslavement Who Later Toured The World As Women.young Writes Of Grief And Hope As Familiar Yet Surprising States: 'its Like A Language, Loss -', He Writes, 'learnt Only By Living - There - '.