“Tyler Gillespie has published an emphatic book of poems.” – The Washington Post

“Florida Man conveys the scope of Florida beyond the flattened punchlines associated with the collection’s eponymous character.” – The Millions

“All of it drips with Floridiana.” –  Tampa Bay Times 

“Finishing Tyler Gillespie’s Florida Man, I felt a sense of having just consumed a layer of the future fossil record of Florida, so simultaneously precise and wide-ranging was Gillespie’s natural history of his home…deeply affecting and ineffable.”  – Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment

“ Florida Man brings serious scrutiny to America’s favorite court jester.” – Entropy