Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

Mary Caroline Richards

Wesleyan University Press, 1989 - Art - 159 pages

A flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.

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User Review  - caro488 - LibraryThing

When you throw a lump of clay on a wheel, the first thing you have to do is center it. After that you can do anything, create anything. But if the clay is not truly centered, any attempt results in deformed, destroyed, useless, shapeless, mess. This can be translated to your life.

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User Review  - RuTemple - LibraryThing

This personal reflection is as impactful as a sutra encountered hands-on.

Contents

• Section 1: 2
• Section 2: 2
• Section 3: 33
• Section 4: 68
• Section 5: 69
• Section 6: 96
• Section 7: 130
• Section 8: 148

About the author

MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS is a potter, teacher, and poet. She received her doctorate in English from the University of California at Berkeley, and has been a member if the faculty at the universities of California and Chicago, Black Mountain College, and the City College of New York. She is author also of The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings (Wesleyan 1973) and Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America (Wesleyan 1980). Her home us in Kimberton, Pensylvania.

MATTHEW FOX, a Dominican priest, is founder and director of The Institute in Culture and Creation-Centered Spirituality in Oakland, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
• Author: Mary Caroline Richards
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0819562009, 9780819562005
• Length: 159 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / General; Crafts & Hobbies / Pottery & Ceramics; Philosophy / General; Poetry / American / General; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General