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Matt Kliewer

HPPR Radio Readers Book Club Contributor
  • Extremely irregularly-karstified aragonitic limestone at Pain Pond, northeastern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas.
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    Eases the Pain
    Matt Kliewer
    To end this set of readings with Plainwater by Anne Carson feels perfect. If not perfect, well, it still feels. Carson, once described by Bruce Hainley as “a philosopher of heartbreak” doesn’t just mix genres in her works but calls into question linguistic and cultural bedrocks that inform our reading of the continuity of human experiences.
  • The American juggernaut Everything noble, patriotic, and progressive is crushed beneath the remorseless tread of that mammoth monster of corruption, cruelty, and fraud, the vampire rings of capital / / Matt Morgan
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    Environmental Degradation and Corporatism
    Matt Kliewer
    I was incredibly excited when I learned that we would be reading a futurist novel for this section of the HPPR book club. From Afrofuturist Octavia Butler’s novel to Anishinaabe artist Lisa Jackson’s virtual reality art experience Biidaban: First Light, I’ve always appreciated speculative fiction ...
  • Haskell County, Kansas. Virtually every farm in the county is primarily dependent upon wheat, although a number of farmers plant sorghums and small grains for feed and sale, raise feeders or sheep, keep large flocks of hens and try in other ways to make part ot their income independent of the wheat crop. At this particular time the wheat was coming up well, and there had been sufficient rain. Prospects for making a crop were good, but in this country good prospects don't mean much. This picture shows one of the two irrigation wells in operation. This one can flood thirty or forty acres of land. Wells like these are very expensive, and while they practically guarantee a crop of sorghums on the land they serve, they cannot be used on the wheat land itself. No well could possibly irrigate a tenth of the wheat land that a farmer would need to make a living.
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    Running Out Surprised Me
    Matt Kliewer
    Two years ago, in what now looks to be a great feat of prescience, my wife recommended I read a new book that was abuzz in the Social Sciences, Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. At the time, I think I met the recommendation with a fair amount of skepticism.
  • . . . It doesn’t amount to much when the rain gauges stay empty.
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    Start Over – A Man Always Has To
    Matt Kliewer
    After reading the first thirty pages of Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained, I thought I had this book and its subsequent beats pegged. Kelton’s protagonist, Charlie Flagg, would, if you’ll forgive the pun, weather a massive drought, refusing government assistance, all while his neighbors greedily lapped up handouts in lieu of hard work.