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Sinking in Moonlight Alone
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781960456519
Publisher: Woodhall Press
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when a loved one dies? What are the final words longed to be said that would aid in the healing process? What moments would a mourner wish to relive with a loved one? Sinking in Moonlight Alone accounts the lives of kindred spirits encountering loss. Communal toil with mental health, addiction, family, friends and desolate decision-making amounting to death are captured in this collection of elegiac verse. Frederick-Douglass Knowles II laments the lives of loved ones lost while reserving space for collective grievance.
Culturally, western society only allots a limited space to sojourn the magnitude of grievance. Knowles memorializes members of his small-town communities of Southeastern Connecticut in this confessional empathetic narrative that recounts: the first time he visited his father's Korean War grave; watching the Super Bowl with his mother on the last day of her life; querying the mysterious drowning of a friend ruled a suicide; confronting the pharmaceutical industry over the loss of his nephew to opioid addiction. This collection unearths a tempest of emotionality that is most often buried beneath the soil of remorse that flowers the gardens of the forgotten.
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