"Extraordinary."--Edmund de Waal, The Guardian "In its stripped-down intimacy, Yield shows Truitt at her most eloquent in demonstrating, as her sculptures do, that all revelation in art is self-revelation."--Donna Rifkind, Wall Street Journal "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 "Her sculptures spoke in restrained form, but the artist''s journals reveal the complexities of thought and experience behind them."-- Wall Street Journal Named by the New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022 "Impressive. Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. These daily entries .
offer a version of Truitt free of artifice as she meditates on the sacred and mundane. This sparks with intelligence."-- Publishers Weekly "All of Truitt''s journals are death-haunted, but these notebooks, written shortly before her own death, have the distinct emotional charge of someone coming to terms with their mortality."--Janique Vigier, Bookforum " Yield holds all the potential pathfinding of Truitt''s previous journals, with the added power of documenting two years near the end of the artist''s life. Art-making until the end, Truitt is as ever a pathfinder worth following."--Bridget Quinn, On the Seawall "Great. Love Anne Truitt. So insightful.
"--Gretchen Rubin, podcaster and New York Times bestselling author, "Four Memoirs That Every Creative Person Should Read" (Instagram) "Truitt''s final journal volume shares the harvest of a lifetime''s attentive cultivation of, and attention to, the experience of living. She offers a cornucopia of insight and responsive contemplation on working, creating, family and friendship, loving and losing, life and death."--Ellen Prentiss Campbell, Washington Independent Review of Books "Through [Truitt''s] writings, honesty shines as she considers her place in the world and grapples with intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues in her life."--Eileen Kinsella, Artnet.com "The frankness of [Truitt''s] fluidly intelligent prose and her undeniably acute visual sensitivity keep her final writings relevant."--Portia Priegert, Galleries West "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 Tóibín, 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.