Internal Monologues

Overview

In this book of poems, characters from old myths speak to the reader in modern voices and in internal monologue to themselves. Arranged in four cycles, the poems’ speakers are archetypal lovers who speak of great love gone wrong: Minerva addresses Jupiter, Iseult speaks to Tristan, Cupid longs for Psyche, while Hamlet pontificates to Ophelia, Venus speaks Mars, Mary to Joseph, Rapunzel to her beloved prince, and a child to Santa. At the heart of these poems is wooing, suffering, and living and their narrative of love, and love lost, is one that can be traced through literature and through human experience across the ages.

Author Biography

Danijela Kambaskovic is the author of two collections of poetry in Serbian, Atlantis and Journey, selections of which have appeared in English in Sydney’s Masthead. Her humorous epic “The Williad: The Epic on the Epic” appeared in Cordite Poetry Review. She was formerly assistant professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies at the University of Western Australia in Perth.