For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Doris Kareva At seventeen

At seventeen

you would find yourself and a dream of yourself mingle with the interior dust

National Poet of Wales

Zoë Brigley’s third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities there

and Czeslaw Milosz sits just pages from Eileen Myles

For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Doris Kareva At seventeenFor the Unnamed (Black Jockey Who Rode the Winning Steed in the Race Between Pico's Sarco and Sepulveda's Black Swan in Los Angeles, in 1852.)Fred D'Aguiar's new book recovers and re imagines the story of a black jockey who raced and won the most publicised race of his era and yet was not named in any of the many press notices about the event. Except to say that he was black and he was a freeman (that is, he had purchased his freedom). Carcanet