Karbala Poet’s book issued after his assassination

8/13/2011 9:37 AM

KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: A Karbala Library has published a poem book for the late Iraqi Poet, Tareq al-Ansary, who was assassinated by terrorists recently, Poet Hadi al-Rubei, who gathered the late Poet’s works, said on Saturday.



“Al-Zawraa Library in Karbala city has issued the first poem collection for the Martyr Poet, Tareq al-Ansary, carrying the headline “Warm Feelings,” on 90 pages, including 29 of his poems,” Rubei told Aswat al-Iraq, saying that “terrorism did not allow the Martyr to issue his works, killing him and his poem, that is living in the heart of Iraqis.”



“I had been expecting Ansary to become a great poet, because he was possessing a high poem potential,” Rubei said.



He said that “the poems had been an attempt by the Poet to reflect his appreciation of his Homeland, and describing the suffering of the citizens in this Homeland, that suffers from terrorism,” adding that the Late Poet had “condemned terrorism and had been martyred on its hands.”



Rubei said that he had gathered those poems “to become part of the sacrifice by the martyrs for this Homeland, who had left it behind, chopped up to pieces, because of their sole guilt of their love for Iraq.”



Late Poet Tareq al-Ansary was born in Abi-Saida township of Diala Province, and had written poems since years, some of which were published in newspapers, but none of his complete poems were published before his assassination.