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DEBIL
Débil (Pánico el Pánico, 2017)
Débil is a poetry book that explores vulnerability as both an aesthetic and a form of knowledge. Across its pages, the lyrical voice moves between love and loss, political precarity and digital intimacy, classical myth and online horoscopes.
With a direct and fragmentary language, Krochmalny transforms screenshots, WhatsApp messages, emails, and internet horoscopes into poetic material, pushing the boundaries of the genre toward a territory where the personal intertwines with the conceptual. Affective fragility coexists with social crisis, humor with despair, irony with lyricism.
In dialogue with the tradition of Argentine poetry, Débil introduces an unprecedented register: vulnerability as strength, the digital as an intimate oracle, and the political as an unavoidable backdrop. The book situates itself within a genealogy where poetry also becomes an archive of its time: the tensions between desire, technology, and power in twenty-first-century Argentina.
Language: Spanish
Poetry Book.
Publisher House: Pánico el Pánico
Pages: 78
April 2017
"In a post-patriarchal and creative economy, the weak man has no fixed values. His adaptation to the relations of production is shifting and unreliable, like the influence of zodiac signs. The weak man, devoted to successive projects with his laptop open in a café, is always on the verge of new possibilities: a fellowship on another continent, a new work group, a short-term sublet, an exchange student who appeared in the chat.
‘No one can plead his own awkwardness,’ said the Roman patriarchs; the weak man does not justify himself by claiming that things are no longer what they were. If work absorbs language and consumes life entirely, whoever speaks of love is simulating; whoever argues for principles is merely trying to persuade another. The very idea of a fixed income and the prospect of founding a marriage vanish like mirages on the horizon. The weak man carries on, opening doors in the labyrinth of the productive cycle, without looking back and without recognizing himself in the words of yesterday."
Back cover text by Claudio Iglesias
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