“The poems are full of gorgeous & introspective exclamations made out of protest, out of rhymes, out of metronomes, ocean, & love. This is a sophisticated & capacious book, one that uses the brain & ear to unknot some of the most important questions of our times.”

— ADRIAN MATEJKA, Map to the Stars

“The energy is constant & the voltage never fades in Wesley Rothman's booming debut.”

— YONA HARVEY, Hemming the Water

“Tune in and up to SUBWOOFER’s disquieting pulse; I suspect it will reverberate long after you read it.”

— DOUGLAS KEARNEY, Buck Studies

“Wesley Rothman, in his remarkable first book, is not really writing about race; he’s writing into race. His primary interest is not in retelling racial history or recording instances of racist actions and ideas. His concern is to uncover what, for himself as a white person, is beneath those narratives and attitudes, and to begin the work of transformation.”

— MARTHA COLLINS, Because What Else Could I Do