Night Watch: Poems

by Kevin Young

From the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal

Following on his exquisite Stones, Young's new collection shapes stories of familial and familiar love, inspired in part by other lives. A central sequence, "The Two-Headed Nightngale," is spoken by Millie-Christine McCoy, the famous conjoined African...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593319621
• ISBN13: 9780593319628
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.