A Barry Brickell Reader illuminates not the pottery Barry Brickell is known for, but another facet of his genius: his ‘wrertings’. Reflecting the extrusions, bulges, crevasses and bobbles, his poetry — like his pots — can be mildly offensive, but they contain the same virtues Barry associated with rail travel: sensuality, rhythm, vibration and warmth.
Here, Barry’s great creative output is laid out expansively, accompanied by a photoessay of Barry doing what he did best: working.
The real me
Why do you
keep on
telling me
I’m something
that I’m not?
Nottapotta,
not an engineer,
not an artist,
nottawriter,
Not even
a real man —
just a wrerter,
a ceramiccissist,
mudslinger
and an oddity —
which is
closer
to the actual
truth?
A Barry Brickell Reader illuminates not the pottery Barry Brickell is known for, but another facet of his genius: his ‘wrertings’. Reflecting the extrusions, bulges, crevasses and bobbles, his poetry — like his pots — can be mildly offensive, but they contain the same virtues Barry associated with rail travel: sensuality, rhythm, vibration and warmth.
Here, Barry’s great creative output is laid out expansively, accompanied by a photoessay of Barry doing what he did best: working.
The real me
Why do you
keep on
telling me
I’m something
that I’m not?
Nottapotta,
not an engineer,
not an artist,
nottawriter,
Not even
a real man —
just a wrerter,
a ceramiccissist,
mudslinger
and an oddity —
which is
closer
to the actual
truth?
Pages - 168
Binding - Paperback
Publisher -
Publication Date -
ISBN - 9780947493349
Weight - 400 grams