Album Notes

"When faced with great loss, many artists search for remnants of memory to create something meaningful out of what is left behind when someone dies. What the living do, if we are to follow Marie Howe's edict, is to make music and poetry and begin to touch, and be touched by, the emotional landscape of grief. This is territory beyond language, and here reconstructed with language—an attempt to speak the unspeakable."

Contributors to Autumnal: Vicki Brown, Tedi Lopez-Mills, Wendy Burk, Jennifer Barber, Sylvia Um, Sandra Lim, Jane Miller, Marie Howe, Deborah Fries, Renee Angle, Niki Herd, Elline Lipkin, Joni Wallace, Olga Broumas, Frances Sjoberg, and Ann Dernier.

Edited and designed by Lisa Bowden.

Lisa Bowden, co-founder and Publisher of Kore Press, is a poet, editor and ADDY award-winning designer. She has curated lecture series, readings, workshops, panels and co-directed a multi-genre art ensemble creating improvisational, site-specific works in public spaces. Lisa has lived or worked in Arizona, London, Barcelona and New York. She is the editor of *Autumnal: A Collection of Contemporary Elegies* and co-editor of *Powder: Writing by Women in Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq.*