Poetry And Imagined Worlds

Part I. Poetic Resources as Tools to Make Meaning

1. A Liaison of Poetry and Tattoos: The Multivoicedness in Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem “The Raven”
Meike Watzlawik

2. Beauty of the Back
Jaan Valsiner

3. Poetry in and for Society: Poetic Messages, Creativity, and Social Change
Gemma Argüello Manresa, Vlad Glăveanu

4. The Poetics Within Performance Art: The Developmental Nature of Artistic Creative Processes
Lia Rocha Lordelo

5. Commentary: Poesis and Imagination
Tania Zittoun

Part II. The Poetic Roots of Creativity and Imagination

6. Living Against and Persistence of Being: Poetic Sharing of Being Sensitive Within Antagonistic Worlds
Ana Cecília Bastos, Glenn E. Rucker

7.
Rimbauding Worlds: Creation of Deranging Senses
Maria Eloisa do Amaral Leão, Danilo Silva Guimarães

8. Living in Verse: Sites of the Poetic Imagination
Mark Freeman

9. Apprehending Beauty: Ordinary People’s Experiences of the “Poetic Instant” in India
Nandita Chaudhary, Deepa Chawla, Ayesha Sindhu

10. “The Tune Without the Words”: Dickinson’s Verses in a Jazz Ensemble—A Case Study on the Poetics of Music and the Musicality of Poetry
Olga V. Lehmann, Sven Hroar Klempe

11. Commentary: On Poetics, Art and Life
Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich

Part III. The Poetics of Daily Life

12. Imagined Sea
Maria Virgínia Dazzani, Giuseppina Marsico

13. Living with “Encantados”: Dances of Poet and Scientist Within the Self
Emily Abbey, Ana Cecilia Bastos

14. Poetic Gestures of Life
Monika Abels

15. Dialogue as Poetic Imagination in the Way of Tea
Kyoko Murakami

16. Commentary: The Poetics of Daily Life—The Invisible Becomes Visible
Kristiina Uriko

17. Conclusive Remarks: Writing Toward the Core—Poetically Framing a Science of Cultural Psychology
Olga V. Lehmann, Nandita Chaudhary, Emily Abbey

Keywords: Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Emotion, Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics