{"product_id":"coiled-essays-on-urgency-and-kinship-paperback","title":"Coiled: Essays on Urgency and Kinship - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAna Maria Spagna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty, a faith in neighborliness and American ideals, and ending with something broader: an alliance with the matriarch, Mother Nature, and the ways she elides ideology or definition. The essays shift perspective to focus on subjects too often overlooked: unwritten histories of xenophobia in the American West, the rights of rivers everywhere, queerness in middle age, troubled human kin, and our more-than-human kin--snakes, fish, bears, sea lions, and a beloved robotic cat. These essays balance wonder at the world around us and urgency at the threats to it, but they add one more imperative: to focus on kinship--on the people we care for and those who care for us, and the more-than-human too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAna Maria Spagna\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTest Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey\u003c\/i\u003e (Bison Books, 2010) as well as several other books about nature, work, community, and history including, most recently, \u003ci\u003ePushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor of English at Wenatchee Valley College and MFA Faculty in Nature Writing in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924584202547,"sku":"9781496248817","price":30.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/D022-7Kp5O9781496248817.webp?v=1793832630","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/coiled-essays-on-urgency-and-kinship-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}