Scott Glassman's chapbook offers simultaneously alien and quotidian glosses on the perils of existing alone and with others. Scott's take on the prose poem operates by way of arpeggios of contrapuntal phrases threatening to tear the form apart while giving them surprising rhythmic balance.

    - Mark Lamoureux, author of Astrometry Organon

Exertions is a syncopated riff on language, a banquet of prose poems whose phrases rub against each other
sometimes like boulders, sometimes like tongues clicking against the palate, whose rhythms are those of quick, sharp breaths of air that leave us vitalized, alert.

    - Greg Djanikian, author of Years Later

I kept thinking of Deleuze & Guattari through the whole piece, as well as Rimbaud's "Je est un autre," i.e., the I is many others. The chapbook also made me aware of how the name can be used as a kind of knowledge ("I know him or her") and that the entire text was a massive compendium of the fluctuation of such knowledge. Interesting and engaging.

- Chris Rizzo, author of Zing