The Scribbling Cure
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Hubris or Humility?

First and last, I am a perpetual reader who
desires textual challenges and pleasures,
approaching writing as a lover of literature
and language, fascinated by knowledge and
experiment. Not posing as an established
poet or critic, I remain an amateur. My pro-
fessionalism amounts to being truthful with-
out pretending to know the truth. W hile I
have read my poetry in the lively, marginal
spaces left within our withering civiliza-
tion, most of my attention lives in solitude,
searching for the scribbling cure that heals
obscure wounds into a meaningful scar.
I make no attempt to explicate these po-
ems, being unable to fathom their critical
contexts or what readers might smuggle
into them. I follow lines that beget a new poem, believing that images sequester
subtexts and secrets. I continue to be im- mersed in words that lead to others—re-
vising , revising—and trusting that I will become a subtler reader and a more self- critical poet in the process.
Yet what about the self-consciousness na- ture of this text—hubris or humility? I
leave that for the reader to decide.

—Robert Bonazzi, 2012