Chris Davidson

Tender Sieve

Arts & Literature

“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.”