~ Cover Reveal! ~
I finally get to reveal the cover of my next book, RECKON! Photo composition by yours truly, type design by Leigh McDonald.
Forthcoming from University of Arizona Press in February, RECKON is a hybrid memoir about being born in Tombstone, Arizona and being raised surrounded by the masculine myths of the West. The book contains poetry, essay, screenplay and more.
This has been the most difficult work I’ve ever written, because it’s by far the most honest. I started writing poetry as a teenager as a pressure release valve, a way of discovering who I was independent of all the cowboy masculinity of Cochise County. But it turns out you can’t run from where you come from forever. This is my return to the town where I was born to face it all.
I’m honored to be published by University of Arizona Press. The depth and breadth of their catalog on the region is unparalleled, and it feels like right where this book is supposed to be. I can’t wait for it to arrive into the world!
~ Save the date ~
RECKON Book Launch & Readings
Tucson - Sun. February 15, 191 Toole
Bisbee - Sat. February 21, Central School Project
Phoenix - Wed. February 25, venue TBA
Hoping to make it to Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, LA, Philadelphia & many more!
I’ll be on tour most of next year - please spread the word & get in touch to book readings, workshops & seminars!
“Logan Phillips’s Reckon is a hell of a book. More daring than pretty much everyone working with a wild interplay of text and image, found and made, Phillips transforms the town and tale of Tombstone, Arizona, into a celebration of mouth and mirth and myth. Phillips knows a masculinity that can’t see itself, appreciate its beauty and its terror, and laugh at its own excesses won’t have long to live. So lucky us: Reckon looks to have a real long life. Arizona needs this book. America needs this book. You do too.”