Centering: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
"Governed by her conviction that "poets are not the only poets" and that artists
don't leave their art at the studio, M.C. Richards explores the poetry of
personhood through the metaphor of centering, drawn from the craftsmanship of
pottery --a potter brings the clay to the center of the wheel, then begins the
process of giving the amorphous spinning mass the desired shape."
Maria Popova shares more.