Table of Contents
Introduction 3
1 Parents 7
2 Dear Baby 20
3 Tokyo 27
4 Cbigasaki 36
5 St. Joseph College 43
6 Interlaken 55
7 La Porte 59
8 I Became a Sculptor 66
9 I Will Rival the Immortals 80
10 Out from the Shadow of a Big Tree 89
11 Head Buster 99
12 To Find Nature's Reasons 110
13 A Close Embrace of the Earth 117
14 Lonely Traveler, Social Lion 125
15 Toward a Sculpture of Space 134
16 Art with a Social Purpose 140
17 Mexico 148
18 New York, 1936-39 156
19 California 169
20 Poston 177
21 MacDougal Alley 186
22 Letters to Ann 199
23 Noguchi and Martha Graham, Passionate Collaborators 211
24 The Rock and the Space Between 220
25 Tara 230
26 1946-48 235
27 Impasse 242
28 Bollingen Travels 248
29 Harbinger Pigeon 255
30 Shinbanraisha 263
31 Mitsukoshi Exhibition 269
32 Yoshiko Yamaguchi 277
33 Kita Kamakura 292
34 My Solace Has Always Been Sculpture 310
35 UNESCO: A Somewhat Japanese Garden 322
36 Changed Visions 334
37 Priscilla 345
38 Working with Noguchi 356
39 Levitating Rocks, Wings of Prayer 363
40 Toward an Autobiography 372
41 A Primer of Shapes and Functions 378
42 The Wheat Itself 386
43 Red Cube, Black Sun 396
44 The Stone Circle 408
45 To Intrude on Nature's Way 417
46 A Place for People to Go 436
47 Imaginary Landscapes 447
48 California Scenario 459
49 Bayfront Park 467
50 All Things Worthwhile Must End as Gifts 474
51 Kyoko 488
52 No Beginnings, No Endings 499
Notes 511
Acknowledgments 553
Index 557