A Meditation on Suffering
“Joe Hoover has shaken the theodicean tree and stands among the fallen apples—wormy and bruised, laden with grace and gravity. Part Rolling Stone, part Rutter’s “Requiem,†O Death, Where is Thy Sting? serves up sups of Hopkins and Robert Ingersoll, doses of Job, both joyous and sorrowful mysteries, before which we mortals sit in silence, marveling.â€