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Invitation to a Secret Feast: Selected Poems

by Joumana Haddad
introduction by Khaled Mattawa
translated by Marilyn Hacker, Issa Boullata, Najib Awad and David Matthews
Tupelo Press, 2007
Paper: 978-1-932195-62-0
Library of Congress Classification PJ7828.D224D3813 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.717

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Invitation to a Secret Feast is the 5th book of poetry by noted Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad, edited and with an introduction by Khaled Mattawa (who also did some of the translations). Haddad’s passionate, poetic voice is renowned throughout Europe and the Middle East, and Tupelo is very proud to be the first to publish her work in this country.

In these gorgeous translations, her voice sings, celebrating sexuality, femininity and womanhood.
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