Night Watch A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • 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 “Kevin Young is a poet of exceptional depth and sensitivity. . . . Let yourself focus on every phrase.”  —Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Night Watch continues one of the most vital currents in contemporary poetry, transforming history and its silences into lyric through the poet’s eloquent invitation: ‘O wounded soul,/ speak.’” —The New York Times Hardcover 09/02/2025