Mike Logan – Bickerstaff Booksellers

Men of the Open Range and Other Poems

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:44:52 +0000

Men of the Open Range is the third book of cowboy poetry from Mike Logan, and like the two before it, opens with a piece named after and inspired by a famed Charlie Russell painting. Like Charlie before him, Mike laments the progress that is steadily infiltrating his precious wild west, and many of the poems in Men of the Open Range rail against the movement to change “our high pure mountain valleys to somethin’ not so different from L.A. streets and alleys.” Logan applies his signature wit, warmth, and humor to create poems that are “studied, not so much in the academic sense, but in his intimate familiarity with the style, the techniques, and perhaps most importantly, the traditions of the West.”

Bronc to Breakfast and Other Poems

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:44:51 +0000

Laugh Kills Lonesome and Other Poems

Kim — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:44:51 +0000

Laugh Kills Lonesome is the follow-up to Mike Logan’s first book of cowboy poetry, Bronc to Breakfast, and it’s no accident that both share titles with legendary works of western art from the great Charlie Russell. Like Charlie, Logan finds his inspiration in the cattlemen of Montana and the West. His poem, “Laugh Kills Lonesome,” is a fitting tribute to both the work of art and captures the spirit of Russell himself. What follows it is a collection of well-crafted, emotionally honest poems that demonstrate Mike Logan’s “uncanny knack for capturing historical facts, embellished with just the right pinch of drama and/or myth, in a way that permits us, a century later, to ride through the picture, Lonesome Dove style!”