Why read Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person?

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

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1 author picked Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Shaun McNiff

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This is a poetic masterwork with the potter’s wheel as a metaphor for creating our lives as “an ongoing process” in which every act integrates all of life. In our current era there is a tendency to cry cultural appropriation when we look beyond our immediate context and study art healing principles within the whole human community and find ourselves in others. Mary Caroline Richards offers good art medicine for this myopia in demonstrating how ideas are not the property of persons “but live in the world” as people and all of nature do. “The deeper we go” in the…

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