A Forthcoming Book of Photography and Poetry

80 pages, full-color hardback with dust jacket. Anticipated release: Fall 2008 by the TAT Foundation Press

They beautifully illustrate and if we pay attention, illuminate, a search for source both within and without. Word-pictures dance with pictures beyond words. It's like Rumi with a Nikon. This penetrating exploration of interior truth and exterior beauty is at every turn a fusion of opposites, as are we. ~ Ron Masa, PhD

A beautiful collection of poems and imagery; an invitation to self-exploration. ~ Paul Rezendes - internationally recognized photographer whose works include: Wetlands: The Web of Life, The Wild Within, and Tracking and the Art of Seeing.

spiritual poetry Though Bob Fergeson lives in the Western United States and Shawn Nevins in the East, their creative wanderings share a common theme: the standing now.

"Nunc fluens acit tempus, numc stans facit aeternitatem."

The passing now makes time, the standing now makes eternity. ~ Boethius

It is the moment we all share, when our self-concern is swept away by the wispy hems of clouds, the bone branches of an ancient evergreen, or the cool, impassive face of an alpine lake - when a pause in the passing now of our short lives reveals eternity.

Bob Fergeson is a Colorado-based photographer, ski instructor, and mountainer. View more of his photographs at nostalgiawest.com. Shawn Nevins is a Kentucky-based naturalist, poet, and sometime filmmaker. His poems have appeared in Lilliput Review, Sacred Journey and Poetry Chaikhana.

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