Art Inspires Change
Founded in 2006, Word Walker Press publishes poetry books by invitation only from authors who are a motivating source of change in our culture. They are attractively produced, promoted individually, and well marketed. Though we hope and expect that our books will gain their share of book club adoptions and paperback sales, it is their quality and strength of social commentary that is our foremost consideration. We believe that it is still possible to publish worthy poetry that will also be financially profitable for author, publisher and bookseller. Our books are currently marketed through a global publishing system which relies on Ingrams, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and other on-line booksellers. Word Walker is a grass roots publisher, making its way toward a bookstore near you."A Guest In All Your Houses"
In
this highly evocative first collection, award-winning poet
Peter Ludwin
explores themes of history and culture, as well as the power
of land
and place to shape aesthetic vision. Set entirely in the
American West from the Great Basin to the Great Plains, this
is a book
with a strong spiritual core. By turns meditative and
freewheeling, it reflects the joy and passion of being
engaged with a
beckoning world. As the title suggests, the poet
approaches
his subject in all its manifest diversity with the outlook of
a
privileged guest for whom each experience is never sufficient
just for
itself. Rather, these encounters are signposts on a path to a
world sustained by invitation and a poet's deft
interpretation of the
road. [more]
"There is No Gene for the Human Spirit"
A
clever tag from the 1997 film Gattaca
is a statement which each of us
knows
inherently to be true. If you’ve
read the startling portrayal of a utopian society gone wrong
in Aldous
Huxley’s Brave New World
(1932),
you are acquainted with the author’s prophetic predictions of
a
world addicted to chemically driven happiness. In a culture
where
biochemistry has become its own religion, spirituality is
being
replaced by serotonin manipulation and mood enhancers.
These works delve into the very nature of what ails us and why a pill for spiritual pain just might not be the answer. [more]
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