“From the first page of this moving collection, you know something has shifted: you’re seeing this landscape as if for the first time, with all its beauty and all its scars, in language so precise it burns. Logan Phillips has understood a basic truth about the world we live in now: that political borders may be real, but linguistic and cultural borders are not. In his able hands, this is cause for celebration.”

“Here are the wickedly sharp ruminations of a poet who understands that identity of the spirit is inextricably tied to the land; the home and hearth of la tierra. Logan Phillips delivers a richly nuanced and topographical historical trek through the southwest region and her people. Sonoran Strange is a poignant experiential observation by an Arizona native, who deftly poeticizes the vast ironies that occur when the past and present collide. It is a strange beauty, a chorus of migratory voices, mestizaje and mother tongues. It is the melancholy of the conquered, the glittering greed of the colonizers, and yet, is still a defiant solar flare of the perseverance that is the land. Phillips writes with the astute keenness of a realist, through the lens of a surrealist, and with the corazon of the passionate lyricist.”

“[A] beautiful poem . . . doing what it does best: getting to the heart of our love and life in crazyland Arizona.”