Night watch; : poems.
"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 Nightingale," is spoken by Millie-Christine McCoy, the famous conjoined African American "Carolina Twins." Born into slavery and ill treatment as a "freak" sensation in 1851 and later free women, their alto and soprano voices harmonized, and Young's poem explores their evolvi...