Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem

Photographer Stephen Johnson and poet-translator Mike O'Connor team up to provide a beautiful marriage of word and image in Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem. The book explores the hermit-sage tradition of China, with poems by Taoist and Buddhist adepts from the T'ang Dynasty (618-906). These haunting poems are paired with Johnson's stark black-and-white photos, offering a visual cue to the loneliness and rugged splendor of the hermit's life.