Ruth Kessler

Composition by Oliver Caplan, Performed by Leslie Jacobson Kaye

A recital, featuring "Woman in an Ermine Collar" from Fire Ashes Wings, set to music by Oliver Caplan, commissioned and premiered by Mezzo Leslie Jacobson Kaye.

Poems Giving Voice to Women in Myths and the Arts

The poems in Fire Ashes Wings follow—with cunning originality—in the footsteps of Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and Alicia Ostriker. These poems are probing, widely and wildly imagined, and, best of all, deeply human. Ruth Kessler’s poems are multifaceted lyrical jewels, sparking, igniting, shining. Their refracted light is most welcome.— Ralph Black

Choral Composition by Oliver Caplan

The poems "Eve to Posterity", "The Absinthe Drinker", and "My name is" from Fire Ashes Wings were set to music as Eve - Absinthe - Alice by composer Oliver Caplan.