Local author Ana Maria Spagna returns to the Red Barn to launch her brand new book, Coiled: Essays on Urgency and Kinship. This 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. “Ana Maria Spagna has written more than a book,” writes poet CMarie Fuhrman, “this is a compass for our disorienting times. With the eye of a naturalist and soul of a poet, Spagna leads us through landscapes of grief, political turmoil, and ecological wonder, ultimately leading us to what really matters: kinship. Whether witnessing the release of a wild fisher or navigating difficult waters of loss, Spagna writes with the kind of vulnerability that at once wrecks and heals. This collection is a howl. It is a prayer. Coiled is a warm hand on the shoulder reminding us that even on the ‘hairline fringe’ we are never alone.”