“In The Return of the Naked Man, Robert Tremmel takes us on a poetic journey of personal exploration. Somewhere on a line somewhere between Camus’s Absurd Man and the Everyman of medieval morality plays, Tremmel’s Naked Man (and sometimes Woman) is all of us, exposed and vulnerable before a world that feels at once both normal and completely strange. It shows us doing the simplest things, from using binoculars, stopping at a convenience store, or deciding whether to eat a pecan pie, but also the most existential: choosing whether to delete everything about one’s life or figuring out what to do with Jesus when He’s having a bad day at the beach. The poems are insightful, fun, and at once both accessible and challenging. Tremmel has written a book that will last in the mind long after its pages have been shelved.”

         —Ace Boggess, author of Escape Envy and The Prisoners