Lyrics for Cosmic Music: Poems

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Patricia Walters describes herself as not just a humanist, but someone who grieves about the world. She finds that turning these insights into art the best way to make life endurable. Whether writing about departed lovers, motherhood, music, or nature, Walters has the eye of someone with a depth of understanding and feeling.

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Patricia Walters left home at age 17, well-educated in music and singing. She spent her career in the 1950s and 60s as a jazz singer in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. She earned a Bachelor of Theater Arts from UCLA in 1969. A divorce brought her to Florida, where she obtained a master's degree in psychology in 1979. She spent the next 40 years as a psychotherapist in private practice. During all of this time, she wrote poetry.