Bøker av Ana Maria Spagna

Poems from a life spent up close and personal with nature chronicle humanity's effect on the earth, and just as importantly, the earth's effect on us. A clear-eyed, and open-hearted reckoning with contemporary life in the Anthropocene.

This book will provoke surprise, debate, and laughter while it provides a road map to greater self-reliance and joy, whatever the future brings. Whether it's the end of oil, an environmental disaster, or something entirely unforeseen, Ana Maria Spagna outlines 100 skills you'll find indispensable for life after the apocalypse.

Explores the enduring human connection to place, journeying from Tijuana to a California beach to Utah's canyon country-and, always, back to the sparsely populated valley in the North Cascades that the author calls home. Potluck homes in on the everyday gatherings that, over time, define a community.

In 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other men waited to board a bus called the Sunnyland. Their plan was: ride the bus together - three blacks and three whites - get arrested and take their case to the US Supreme Court. This book chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement's lesser-known stories.