Kevin Young
speaker
1,056 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Kevin Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I I guess I'm trying to understand the sounds here because they're so amazing.
I think it's also a communal art, you know.
It is it was often practiced, you have a quilting bee, i it's uh uh an act of sisterhood, I think.
Yeah.
And there's very much that communal quality uh in the AIDS quilt, of course.
But also I think in that leap between a mounting watchfulness I find hard to bear.
It's kind of a
A lonely,
Sentiment.
You know, there's this moment I feel like at the end where the speaker or Spencer, however you want to think of it, is is is wrestling with what all this means.
It's come down to a mounting watchfulness, which, you know, is a hard way to go about things, perhaps.
I don't know.
It also feels like the poet's burden somehow.
And I almost think that leap, which I of course is filled with mourning when I saw
Yeah.
It
has these makers behind it that I think he's trying to get us to think about.
And I think that similarity is as much important to him as the leap and the turn that you're describing so well.
oh well.
Well and there's a play with the heft of the testaments but s and spaces to spare, which as you point out, may not be filled.
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