Tender Sieve
Poems
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
These poems explore the relationship between inner and outer worlds. They are both the record of the search and the means of searching, whether it's a walk, a relative's death, unrequited love, or simply the rituals of waking up and washing dishes. Laced with longing as well as delight, Tender Sieve explores both the grief and joy of finding a way forward when life doesn't look like you expected.
Endorsements (4)
“The reader can almost taste the emotions that rise in the reading of these raw poems. Deeply personal and evocative, the vivid images rise from the words like a kind of fragrant incense that elicits for us the poet’s world, her desire for fruitfulness, her spirit’s struggle, her courage to persist.”
“When I read these poems, I feel as if Jolene Nolte and I are having the best kind of conversation: childhood memories, family lore, stories from travels. I don’t want this book to end!”
“Jolene Nolte’s heartsick poetry, self-aware and deeply attentive to the natural world, embodies a consciousness navigating rich natural beauty, physical loneliness, and the spiritual consolations of friendship and faith. The mind at work in these poems is not self-pitying even as it, comically and trenchantly, examines the traps of self-pity. This rich, raw book resolves in a series of addresses that are themselves full of resolve—lyrical, in love with language, and deeply moving.”
“Jolene Nolte manages to expose the vulnerability of being alone while, at the same time, comforting her readers with her stunning gift of poesy. This collection is essential.”
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