Careful is an astonishing, tightly braided book that invites us to ruminate on the ways in which we interact with media, and how it, in turn, shapes our consciousness. Riffing on Mad Men and Punky Brewster, Blue Velvetand WWF and Rescue 911, Katie Fuller’s eclectic and insightful poems hum with undercurrents of danger, digging deep into themes of survival, sexual exploitation, pain, and violence when it comes to moving through the world in a female body in the 21stcentury. “The moral of the story is the television pulses,” writes Fuller, and these poems pulse, too, with corporeality and snappy dialogue, with music and heart, and with a restless lyric intelligence that reminds us: “not everyone gets saved.” — Erika Meitner, Judge of the 2022 Anhinga Prize for Poetry
