How does one plumb the depths of an 84-year arc?  Martha Talburt does, and takes readers along on her lifetime quest to be more bridge than wall.  A BRIDGE NOT A WALL is a colorful hybrid which represents the quest through her art, poetry and journal writing.   

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Becoming a bridge, not a wall has been artist Martha Talburt’s lifelong pursuit. With deep commitment, humor, irreverence, and pluck, she shares her quest with us, vis à vis art, poetry and journal writing.  A BRIDGE NOT A WALL is the result — a lively, color-filled hybrid of a memoir which shares her long sweep of a lifetime. Talburt’s memories flow out non-sequentially, in 146 pages of poems, pictures and reflections. Read her book slowly — start anywhere — it doesn’t matter. Savor the paintings, portraits and drawings — the poems through which Talburt works out her stuff — the challenges, hilarities, disappointments, sadnesses and delights which punctuate a life. Identify with the prose which through the years she has entered in journals, writing down the stuff — airing it in the pages rather than keeping it stuffed inside. Hope and optimism flow out of the whole enterprise, which celebrates a rich, multi-faceted life — from motherhood to elderhood and the numerous reinventions of self in between.

Martha Talburt is a well-known artist and teacher who has taught art and poetry for many years. Semi-retired now, she lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with her dog, Zoey, near some of her large family. Trained at the Art Students League in New York where she specialized in portraiture, Martha has created portrait drawings of subjects all over the world. In addition to visual art, poems are her passion, and she has been writing them for as long as she can remember. The phrase, "A face is a poem the soul writes," blends her two passions. This is her second book.