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    Ways of Flying
    Ways of Flying
    Ways of Flying
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    Ways of Flying

    By Jay Albrecht

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    My poetic task is to tell my imaginings in vivid, rhythmical ways, using word-pictures ranging from graceful to comedic.
    Subjects range from nature to kids to the far reaches of thought, drawing on travel scenes, technologies, therapeutics and much musing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 30, 2015
    ISBN9781514429167
    Ways of Flying
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    Jay Albrecht

    BACKGROUND: Mechanical engineer, school counselor, psychologist, copywriter in New york and Swedish agencies, English tutor, publicist for non-profits, artist (sculpture, mobiles, collages).

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      Ways of Flying - Jay Albrecht

      Copyright © 2015 by Jay Albrecht.

      Contact the author at [email protected] or (914) 332-1901

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 11/25/2015

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      CONTENTS

      ARTS

      GRAPHIC ART

      Driving To Art Class

      Our Artspace

      Rosemary’s Room

      Experimenting Artist

      Ed And I At Artistry

      Collage

      Building Your Collage

      Ceramic Stabile

      Wire Sculpture

      Sculpting Your Fancy

      DANCE

      Expressions Three

      Pas De Deaux

      Peacock Polka

      Barocco Ballet

      Diane, Dancing

      Dixieland Stomp

      Mozart’s Waltz

      MUSIC

      Rachmaninoff ²Nd Piano Concerto

      Poulenc Sonata

      Gershwin’d Tempo

      Rhapsody In Blue

      Jazz Is…

      Jazzman, Riffing

      Morning Cadenza

      In C Sharp Minor

      The Great Gate Of Kiev

      Schumann & Snowflakes

      LOOKING INSIDE & OUT

      Senior Offering

      Muse-Seeking

      Search

      To Jamie

      Fond Lightness

      Chocolate

      Savoring

      A Kind Of Overcoming

      In A Mind’s Landscape

      At 83

      At 84

      At 86

      At 88

      Ode To My Hyundai

      FIXING ILLS

      Chaplain’s Visit

      Halloween In Hospital

      To Debbie, Day Nurse

      To Nurse Ulla

      Facing The Diagnosis

      To Cecile, Psychologist

      Psychoanalysis Finally Explained

      NATURE

      Winter On The Way

      January View

      1⁰Th Floor Winter

      Advent, Iced

      Easter Uplift

      Sunny Afternoon

      Backyard At Sunset

      Twilight

      May Rhythms

      Morning Shore-Ing

      Waterfall

      Autumn’s Here

      Dinasauric

      Weathered

      Two Haikus

      Animalia

      Mimosa

      MEMORIES

      My Bryce Canyon

      Our Orchard

      Fright Night At Nuyorican Poets Café

      To Nephew

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