One of this web site's visitors, Chris Campbell of Innova Records, has released a jazz CD called "The Death of Simone Weil." For the CD Darrell Katz composed and arranged an improvisational cantata for Paula Tatarunis' poem about Weil's life & death. Read about the CD and examine its lyrics by clicking here. The beautiful excerpt from Paula Tatarunis' libretto reprinted below is about Weil's approach to the poem that led her to Christ -- George Herbert's "Love",
If only I could enter
the sanctuary of the poem,
naked as a spirit,
my miserable flesh
shed in a heap on the porch --
like at Easter in Solesmes,
when the plain song
plucked me aloft
from my suffering
and I hovered like a feather
on the breath of God,
or dust in his splendour,
far above the malheur, dégoût et
paresse of my unworthy life:
Love bade me welcome, Love
©Paula Tatarunis
4.13.90 Easter Eve
