In Damon McKinney's follow-up chapbook to Beer-Breath Kisses, the grit of rural eastern Oklahoma drifts through open car windows along quiet dirt roads. A Native family grieves through ceremony, and a son struggles to redefine his broken sense of self with what remains of his own history. Through vivid fragments, I Can't Forgive a Dead Man depicts loss and loyalty in a world where death can be both sudden and sacred.
