Tom Dempster’s camera captures the simple and intricate beauty of the South Dakota prairie and the stunning openness of the human soul in faces from around the world. Kathryn Timpany’s evocative poetry expresses the common yearnings and celebrations of the human community. Taken together, they startle you out of your most careful expectations and move you away from stereotype.

Dempster and Timpany offer you a book that will bring you hours of pleasure and usher you into the world just beneath the surface of your everyday life. It combines images of the familiar and of the exotic, from Puerto Rico, India, British Columbia, Taiwan, as well as the authors’ home landscape in South Dakota, with an invitation to see everyday life in all its radiance and complexity, its beauty and its subtlety.

If you want to see the world shimmer for just a moment in a way you have never noticed before, open this book and Behold!...