Listening to Stone

CONTENTS

Copyright Notice

5. St. Joseph College

8. I Became a Sculptor

9. I Will Rival the Immortals

10. Out from the Shadow of a Big Tree

11. Head Buster

12. To Find Nature’s Reasons

13. A Close Embrace of the Earth

14. Lonely Traveler, Social Lion

15. Toward a Sculpture of Space

16. Art with a Social Purpose

18. New York, 1936–39

21. MacDougal Alley

22. Letters to Ann

23. Noguchi and Martha Graham, Passionate Collaborators

24. The Rock and the Space Between

28. Bollingen Travels

29. Harbinger Pigeon

30. Shinbanraisha

31. Mitsukoshi Exhibition

32. Yoshiko Yamaguchi

33. Kita Kamakura

34. My Solace Has Always Been Sculpture

35. UNESCO: A Somewhat Japanese Garden

36. Changed Visions

38. Working with Noguchi

39. Levitating Rocks, Wings of Prayer

40. Toward an Autobiography

41. A Primer of Shapes and Functions

42. The Wheat Itself

43. Red Cube, Black Sun

44. The Stone Circle

45. To Intrude on Nature’s Way

46. A Place for People to Go

47. Imaginary Landscapes

48. California Scenario

49. Bayfront Park

50. All Things Worthwhile Must End as Gifts

52. No Beginnings, No Endings

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

A Note About the Author

Also by Hayden Herrera