Kevin Young
Praise for Night Watch
Kevin Young is a poet of exceptional depth and sensitivity... Let yourself focus on every phrase
Ron Charles, Washington Post
As Young writes, we live in a world in which ‘the dead won’t leave/us be.’ Thankfully, there remains collective work to honor them. Night Watch continues one of the most vital currents in contempora ...
New York Times
Impressionistic and potent... Young’s poems candidly and vividly trace the woven threads of loss and admiration, death and reemergence: ‘away from gravity/ & the cherry trees/ blooming early// before I was ev ...
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Kevin Young is a poet of exceptional depth and sensitivity... Let yourself focus on every phrase
Ron Charles, Washington Post
As Young writes, we live in a world in which ‘the dead won’t leave/us be.’ Thankfully, there remains collective work to honor them. Night Watch continues one of the most vital currents in contempora ...
New York Times
Impressionistic and potent... Young’s poems candidly and vividly trace the woven threads of loss and admiration, death and reemergence: ‘away from gravity/ & the cherry trees/ blooming early// before I was ev ...
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Kevin Young is a poet of exceptional depth and sensitivity... Let yourself focus on every phrase
Ron Charles, Washington Post
As Young writes, we live in a world in which ‘the dead won’t leave/us be.’ Thankfully, there remains collective work to honor them. Night Watch continues one of the most vital currents in contempora ...
New York Times
Impressionistic and potent... Young’s poems candidly and vividly trace the woven threads of loss and admiration, death and reemergence: ‘away from gravity/ & the cherry trees/ blooming early// before I was ev ...
Publishers Weekly (starred review)