Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle and Impossible PrincessĬox has an off-kilter and erotic way with words Krakow Melt is a strangely wonderful book, an incendiary tribute to outlawed desires. Cox brings us a story of struggle, defeat, liberation and love that I will never forget. As we read we slip into a free zone of writing, almost as if the boundaries of the page had themselves slipped away and we were free to wander through Eastern Europe like natives, with the haunted and nomadic gaze of those on whom history has given up. I've been a fan of Daniel Allen Cox's writing for some time, and in Krakow Melt the wit, punch and sexual heat of Shuck return, revved up even more. Patrick Califia, author of Public Sex and Macho Sluts Let your sense of foreboding guide you through Krakow Melt until you smell gasoline and realize you are gripping your own box of matches. The description of a gay pride march ought to be prescribed reading for anybody who thinks activism is passe. Zoe Whittall, author of Bottle Rocket Hearts and Holding Still For As Long As Possible Krakow Melt is Syd Barrett crossed with the Polish queer nation, a rollicking and heart-pounding urban jump through some grim realities and fine prose stylings. Provocative and unnerving, Krakow Melt is at once a love letter and a fiery call to arms.

Driven by rage, sexual curiosity for one another, and Pink Floyd, they buck church, government, and the LGBT community to find sexual freedom, escaping theirĮnemies by scaling the crumbling walls and Miniature replicas of the world's great infernos-Chicago 1871, San Francisco 1906, London 1666-he meets Dorota, a literature student and budding pyromaniac. The extreme urban sport parkour, is convinced Radek, a bisexual artist and a practitioner of Soon-to-be president makes homophobic declarations. (a Pole) hovers near death while the country's It's 2005, and Poland is grappling with its newfound role as a member of the European Union the nation dips into moral crisis as Pope John Paul II This second novel by Lambda Literary Awardįinalist Daniel Allen Cox ( Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fightįronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. Shortlisted for an Independent Literary Award Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction Finalist

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