Looking out and looking in: Journeys to self-awareness and empathy through creative juxtapositions

Abstract

Based on a keynote address delivered at the National Association for Poetry Therapy conference in April 2013, this article explores how poems, stories, and creative writing can enhance our self-awareness as well as our understanding of individuals very different from ourselves. The author emphasizes various types of juxtapositions that help transform our view of self and others. These include adjoining words that create surprise in readers, paradoxical word combinations known as oxymoron, melding the ordinary with the extraordinary, and links between the reader's world and the universe of literary texts.

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