Dr. Matt Henry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Wyoming | Environmental Humanities, Climate Justice, Coloniality, Energy/Water, Just Transition, Storytelling

Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition
Matthew S. 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
Pollution Is Colonialism
Max Liboiron
@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
Be Holding: A Poem
Ross Gay
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
The Black Sea: A History
Charles King
@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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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Karen Tei Yamashita
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
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Andrew Ross
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
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Raymond Williams
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
O Beautiful
Jung Yun
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
Selected Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
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
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Trespassing
Uzma Aslam Khan
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