<p>Kevin Young is the <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">poetry editor</a> for <i>The New Yorker</i>, and the author of many books of his own poetry. His newest work, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Night-Watch-Poems-Kevin-Young/dp/0593319621">Night Watch</a>,” focusses on death, while also drawing upon his wide view of history, from the end of slavery in the U.S. to Dante’s seven-hundred-year-old poem “The Divine Comedy.” Young tells David Remnick that Dante actually played an outsized role in bringing “Night Watch” to life: “This is a book that, I think, without him, I would have kept in a drawer because the subjects were kind of dark that I was trying to contend with, and [Dante] gave a framework for me,” Young explains. “How do you write about [hell] and frame it as a journey rather than a morass?” </p>


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