Reckon by Logan Phillips

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Reckon

University of Arizona Press

Reckon

by Logan Phillips

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What's it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town to face the history he was raised on as a boy--gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys--for a new, personal confrontation with the West's foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and "slathered in murder."

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past--including Youngfather and Teenme--Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West's most famous gunfight--a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments--where Phillips's father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios.

With an original, searing voice, Reckon is an essential answer to the tough questions of past and future, inheritance and reinvention, all from the perspective of a boy stuck in the middle.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press
ISBN:
9780816555826
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
176
Authors:
Logan Phillips
Published Date:
2026-02-10
Language:
English
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About Logan Phillips

A bilingual poet, performer, educator, and cultural worker from the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, Logan Phillips was appointed the 2026–2029 Tucson Poet Laureate by the City of Tucson. His debut full-length collection, Sonoran Strange (West End Press, 2015), was named a 2015 Southwest Books of the Year selection; his collection RECKON followed in 2026. With creative partner Adam Cooper-Terán, he has performed a theatrical version of Sonoran Strange across the United States and Europe. Phillips cofounded and formerly codirected Spoken Futures, Inc. and the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam, and he co-founded the performance group Verbobala.

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