Books and Media Click on individual titles for more info. The only book created by Joan here is Messages from the Flower Pulpit. Others have essays about Joan. |
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| Elijah Wald says: "Perry was one of the great fingerpickers of the 1960s, a friend and influence to artists including Bob Dylan, John Fahey, Michael Bloomfield, Jerry Garcia, and many, many others. Somehow, though, he never quite got around to making a record until the last months of his life, when we went through his old tapes, culling the best versions of favorite pieces, and he recorded a handful of beautiful new cuts. Perry’s playing was most strongly influenced by the quieter, more 'country' blues artists, people like Mississippi John Hurt, Elizabeth Cotton, Etta Baker, and Sam McGee...Perry was a marvelously soulful, funny, insightful, and imaginative player, and this album gives me great pride and pleasure." Google Perry Lederman for tidbits. The liner notes to this album were written by Poet Laureate of California, Al Young. In the family history, Perry died in 1995, seamud came to Joan in 1996, and in 1997 the sale of Perry's Gibson guitar bought Joan's kiln, and every opening of a firing she plays Perry's music. | | | This book was built from articles written for "Nature," later rearranged by Martin J. Kemp, viewable in contents page if you click again. In the preface he says, "My interest was less in looking at the influence of science on art, or evcen vice versa, but at shared motifs in the imaginative worlds of art and science." Chapter on ocean sediment glazes is called "Dendrites from the Deep" and is in a chapter called "New Worlds Revealed." Cost includes shipping via media mail. | ||
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| Follow links below for radio and video, available for immediate free download. This link to a 4 minute video is another way to learn more about what I do and how. If you'd like to hear a half-hour WICN interview between Joan and Mark Lynch, click to listen. An NPR audio and text article by Tracy Hampton is available free at http://www.wgbh.org/cainan/article?item_id=393744. Send email to: thesoftearth@yahoo.com if you want to purchase a dvd made for a CBS show called Robi on the Road. It shows Joan at work (about 5 minutes) and costs $15. | | | Mostly about life cycles, I built this book from 20 gift cards I wrote to myself when I bought flowers. A unique view of dialogue with self and others, changing names and time frames as past and present helped prepare a family for inevitable goodbyes. It's personal and universal. Recommended for all ages. It's probably fair to say that this book hovers between bizarre and inspirational. Definitely a quick read that can sit unopened or begin to be an oasis to which one goes to drink. Price includes USPS shipping by Media Mail, 6 to 10 days, select "no shipping needed option for this". If faster service is wanted, request UPS Ground or other options at checkout. | ||
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| A collection of essays, each includes a photo, a recipe, and writing by a woman about her grandmother. This placed here because of Joan Lederman's essay, "The Darkness Behind Her." A full preview is available at Amazon.com | |||||
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