“Like a lamp carried up a lane at night, The Red Virgin carves a sure path to the life and work of Simone Weil, bringing us into intimate contact with one of the great unavailing religious and social thinkers of our century. It is a splendid book of illuminations.”
— Edward Hirsch
“Weil comes alive again to the reader, in all her feisty, haunting singularity. A wonderful evocation!”
— Robert Coles
“This book of poems, dazzling in their brillance, presents Simone Weil in the fullness of her life as a woman, as a political protester, as a spirit responding with intelligence and honesty to the pain, the inhumanity, the dishonesty of life in the 20th century.”
— Carroll Smith-Rosenberg