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Dr. Matt Henry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Wyoming | Environmental Humanities, Climate Justice, Coloniality, Energy/Water, Just Transition, Storytelling

15 books
Book Cover for: Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition, Matthew S. Henry

Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition

Matthew S. Henry
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

@LoebDavon @megankatenelson My book, Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition out with @UnivNebPress on January 1! https://t.co/mWSMplOOol

Paperback, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pollution Is Colonialism, Max Liboiron

Pollution Is Colonialism

Max Liboiron
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

@JoniAdamson Thanks! I’ll have to read this asap. Love Max Liboiron’s work; teaching Pollution is Colonialism in a few weeks. Also, this is a good reminder I owe an email to @KalaniCarlson…

Paperback, 2021

$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Be Holding: A Poem, Ross Gay

Be Holding: A Poem

Ross Gay
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

Today I reached into my mailbox and found a cluster of earwigs and I’m convinced I’d be less grossed out if Ross Gay would just write a poem about them.

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Black Sea: A History, Charles King

The Black Sea: A History

Charles King
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

@jenn_bernstein I'm writing something now on King Charles being dubbed the "Climate King" despite a history of making claims about "overpopulation" in the Global South. Classic king move.

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Book Cover for: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Karen Tei Yamashita

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

Karen Tei Yamashita
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

Hogan, Solar Storms Various essays: Whyte/Todd/Tallbear/Gilio-Whitaker Casas, Flint Jung Yun, O Beautiful LeMenager, Living Oil Miller, Extraction Ecologies Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Iovino and Opperman, Material Ecocriticism Gomez-Barris, The Extractive Zone

Paperback, 2017

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City, Andrew Ross

Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

Andrew Ross
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

Andrew Ross, in Bird on Fire (2011), calls Phoenix the world’s least sustainable city. He also notes that if it can make meaningful progress to ensure a livable future, then there’s hope for replicability elsewhere. Well, here’s an update on that. https://t.co/G1oqIdZm1V

Paperback, 2013

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams

Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

Raymond Williams
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

Day 2/ We also discussed the importance of language and narratives in framing the climate crisis, and how considering keywords - in the Raymond Williams sense - can help us understand evolving and divergent understandings of the climate crisis, thus shaping reactions.

Paperback, 2014

$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: O Beautiful, Jung Yun

O Beautiful

Jung Yun
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

Will be teaching Jung Yun’s O Beautiful for the first time this spring. Excited for it. Also returning to an old favorite, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. It is finals week and I’m getting stoked for spring, what is this

Paperback, 2023

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Selected Poems, Gwendolyn Brooks

Selected Poems

Gwendolyn Brooks
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

A book of selected poems by Gwendolyn Brooks randomly showed up in an Amazon package at my doorstep and I spent more time I’d like to admit trying to figure out who sent it before I looked at the address on the package. It was meant for my neighbor. Now I need to meet them.

Paperback, 2006

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Trespassing, Uzma Aslam Khan

Trespassing

Uzma Aslam Khan
Dr. Matt HenryDr. Matt Henry

If you’re planning a postcolonial lit class, a good choice against the backdrop of the flood crisis in Pakistan is Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing.

Paperback, 2005

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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