Published Works of Martha Oliver-Smith
Enjoy the published works of Martha Oliver-Smith — an author, literature and writing teacher who lives in northern Vermont.
Martha's Mandala: Figures in a Family Circle
Martha Stringham Bacon’s struggle to express herself as an artist in the first half of the 20th century led to madness. Personally connected with Dr. Carl Jung whose theories of the human psyche she adhered to, “Patty” Bacon emerged from her ordeal by painting mandalas. In her memoir Martha’s Mandala, Martha Oliver-Smith remembers, imagines and reflects on the life and art of her grandmother with whom she spent most of her childhood and on her grandfather, poet Leonard Bacon. Oliver-Smith examines the voices and expectations in her own life grown out of a unique and fertile spiritual heritage.
“my mother’s Desk”
Martha's Mandala Links:
Podcast interview on Write The Book website, with Martha Oliver-Smith
Find this book at Spuyten Duyvil Publishing or Amazon.Martha Oliver-Smith, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2015 - ISBN 978-0-9661242-8-6 - Illustrated with Archival Materials $30.00
Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences in Waterbury, VT: jungiancenter.org. Find copies for sale of Martha's Mandala.
An essay “My Mother’s Desk” published in the anthology Writers and Their Mothers. Ed. Dale Salwak. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Saint Jerry - An Essay on J.D. Salinger
Martha Oliver-Smith, author of Martha's Mandala (SD, 2015), a memoir that explores her own grandmother's relationship with C.G. Jung in the 1930s, here reflects on her encounter with J.D. Salinger in the late 60s. Ms. Oliver-Smith includes a portrait of her own profession, teaching, and in particular the attitude engendered by Catcher in the Rye. Both events are filtered through the lens of her interaction with the author of that classic American novel.
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