Abdul Aziz Al-Maqaleh.. In the presence of a Yemeni name that will not be repeated

Abdel Aziz Al-Maqaleh is one of Yemen's moons in the modern era, rather he is the most prominent and most present in the hearts and minds of Yemeni generations of poets, intellectuals, politicians and revolutionaries.

I was one of the ninety-year-old generation of poetry in Yemen who were overwhelmed by Al-Maqaleh’s care, pen and reading.

And from experience, I noticed how much the great man of poetry, culture, and value was affectionate towards our generation and generations before us, on purpose and love, and not for any other reason.

Al-Maqaleh wrote hundreds, and perhaps more, of prefaces and introductions to novels, poetry collections, heritage books, and criticism. He did not care about all those voices that were rising loudly criticizing his method of presenting everyone. Al-Maqaleh was always right, as many of the names he presented and encouraged formed important signs in the march of Yemeni poetry.

The two great poets Abd al-Aziz al-Maqaleh and Abdullah al-Baradouni were two Yemeni stars in the skies of Arabic poetry and culture. Because of Al-Baradouni’s poetic and personal privacy, Al-Maqaleh was one of the pioneers of the modern poem at the time of his greats Salah Abdel-Sabour, Amal Dunqul, Ahmed Abdel-Moati Hijazi, Adonis, Abdel-Wahhab Al-Bayati and others, just as Al-Baradouni was one of the pioneers of modern classics in Arabic poetry.

Although they are from two different schools of poetry, Al-Maqaleh denied those who described this as a disagreement, and described it as a difference in two schools of poetry, saying that his relationship with Al-Baradouni, which began in 1957, continued as a strong friendship, to the extent that they used to read books and then discuss about them, expressing his happiness that he is one of my scholars. Al-Baradouni's poetic experience and writing introductions to some of his books.

Al-Maqaleh’s rich poetic and intellectual experience, which began with his issuance of the collection “It Must Be Sana’a” in 1972, continued to form 23 collections of poetry, ending with his last collection, “Utopia and Poems of the Sun and Rain,” which was published in 2020. It is noticeable that Al-Maqaleh is the Arab poet who was distinguished by persistence and persistence in writing despite his progress. in age;

He used to amaze us at every stage of his poetry with a new experience in which the mystic, the patriotic, the philosophical, and the spatial - from "The Alphabet of the Soul", to "The Village Book", "The Book of Friends", "The Book of Love", and "Near Tagore Gardens" - he He did not stop writing poetry, and the same applies to his literary and intellectual publications, which amounted to 33 books in criticism, heritage, history, and popular literature, starting with his book “Collective Poetry in Yemen,” which was published in 1972, and passing through “The Crisis of the Arabic Poem,” and “Al-Zubairi, The Cultural Conscience of the Nation.” ", And the"

Dr. Al-Maqaleh was exceptional in everything in his poetic, cultural, intellectual, personal and institutional project, and it is rare to find a poet or intellectual in his discipline and loyalty to the project of authorship and culture, and at the same time his interest in establishing his personal relationships and allocating enough time for cultural meetings in his home or the homes of his friends and giving importance to his meetings Poets and writers and write about them and read their production.

As for his presidency of the Center for Studies and Research, in which he remained until the last days of his life, and before that, his presidency of the most important educational and cultural edifice in Yemen, which is Sana’a University, it was a bright and distinguished sign in the history of university education.

He was able to bring in the largest academic and cultural names in the Arab world to teach and work at the university.

The last years of the revolutionary life of Al-Maqaleh - who was one of the fighters of the revolution of September 26 / September 1962 - witnessed brokenness and pain as the voice of the revolution and the republic in Yemen and its pen, as he saw with his eyes the dreams of the revolution and the republic in Yemen while they were dying, and its castles were collapsing, and he witnessed the dawn of the Yemeni revolution, Sanaa And it falls into the clutches of the 2014 coup, in a situation that does not resemble the dreams of the first revolutionaries or the dream of the subsequent generations of September, and there is no doubt that this blew in the heart of the great poet a rain of sadness and pain, which he expressed in dozens of broken and sad poems, the most prominent of which was his poem that declared despair that Written 4 years before his death:

I am

postponing

death

Al-Maqaleh expressed his sadness and pain over the situation in Yemen and the Yemenis, so he went to paint the scene, as if he wrote his last scene in his last poems:

Wrap me up,

which

wolves

. .

Far from the story of the war that threatened all the beauties of the wounded Yemen, including Al-Maqaleh, who found himself besieged by the ugliness of the war and its disappointments, the great poet maintained his calmness, his meditations, his mysticism, his cultural and poetic achievement, his bias towards the values ​​of the homeland, his love for poetry, the people and the country he was addicted to, its mornings and evenings, its private councils and windows. And its markets and stones, and he wrote about it and about it, sometimes loving and sometimes admonishing his good companions and his poor enemies for love, and he did not forget - with all that - to underline his supplications to God:

To give the heart a bit of light, a