Yield

Extraordinary. -Edmund de Waal, The Guardian Truitt wrote as she sculpted, returning to the past again and again to find fresh truths. . . . A model of discipline and open-ended inquiry and a welcome counterweight to the kind of anxieties that so often accompany a creative practice. -Megan O'Grady, New Yorker Anne Truitt's Yield has a tone that is rich and spare, considered and sensuous, inward-looking and utterly vibrant and vivid, fully alive in the world, inspiring for the reader. -Colm Toibin, author of The Master As a previously unpublished manuscript from Truitt's archive, Yield affords us the opportunity to see the artist in an unusually raw state. Her words are unfailingly erudite and abundantly human. -Miguel de Baca, author of Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture Completed two years before Truitt's death, Yield recounts in crystalline prose the decline of her generation, the horrors of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror,' and the gratification her art brings even as its execution proves more difficult. Here is Truitt's finest work of writing: a book as spare and deep, and ultimately wordless, as her art. -James Meyer, author of The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture This extraordinary journal is Anne Truitt's record of a searching intelligence, her meditations on memory, loss, creating art, creating a family and on age. It is a remarkable book, a tuning into 'very tiny singular differences' in a way that reveals Truitt's singular brilliance as both artist and writer. -Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes I have always kept Anne Truitt's Daybook, Turn, and Prospect near me as I write. Yield is a rich encounter with the same searching, wise voice of a woman artist grappling with the complexities of her life and work. What a gift it is to have her voice in my ears once again. -Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance