# Daniel Moore (poet)

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore (July 30, 1940, Oakland, California – April 18, 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a U.S. poet, essayist and librettist. In 1970 he converted to the Sufi tradition of Islam and changed his name to Abdal-Hayy (eventually merging it with his birth-name). He then created works such as Ramadan Sonnets (1996) and The Blind Beekeeper (2002), most works being self-published. In early adulthood Moore traveled widely, living in Morocco, Spain, Algeria, and Nigeria as well as in Santa Barbara in the United States.

## Published works
### Poetic works

* Dawn Visions (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1964)
* This Body of Black Light (Fred Stone, Cambridge, 1965)
* Burnt Heart (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1971)
* The Desert is the Only Way Out (Zilzal Press, Santa Barbara, 1985)
* The Chronicles of Akhira (Zilzal Press, Santa Barbara, 1986)
* Halley's Comet (Zilzal Press, Santa Barbara, 1986)
* Atomic Dance (am here books, Santa Barbara, 1988)
* Awake As Never Before (Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, 1993)
* The Quest for Beauty —illustrated by Sara Steele (Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, 1994)
* Roses, A Selection of Poems (Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, 1994)
* Maulood, a poem in praise of The Prophet Muhammad (Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, 1995)
* Mecca/Medina Time-Warp (Zilzal Press, Philadelphia, 1996)
* The Ramadan Sonnets (Kitab/City Lights Books, Bethesda/San Francisco, 1996)
* The Blind Beekeeper (Zilzal Press Chapbook, Philadelphia, 1999)
* The Blind Beekeeper, Poems (Jusoor/Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2001)
* Mars & Beyond (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2005)
* Salt Prayers (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2005)
* Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2005)
* Ramadan Sonnets (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2005)
* Psalms for the Brokenhearted (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2006)
* I Imagine a Lion (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2006)
* Coattails of the Saint (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2006)
* Love is a Letter Burning in a High Wind (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2006)
* Abdallah Jones and the Disappearing-Dust Caper (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2006)
* The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light/Ninety-Nine Ghazals Written in English (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2007)
* Underwater Galaxies (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2007)
* The Music Space (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2007)
* Cooked Oranges (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2007)
* Through Rose Colored Glasses (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2008)
* Like When You Wave at a Train and the Train Hoots Back at You/Farid's Book (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2008)
* In the Realm of Neither (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2008)
* The Fire Eater's Lunchbreak (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2008)
* Millennial Prognostications (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2008)
* You Open a Door and It's a Starry Night (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2009)
* Where Death Goes (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2009)
* Shaking the Quicksilver Pool (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2009)
* The Perfect Orchestra (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2009)
* Sparrow on the Prophet's Tomb (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2009)
* A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2009)
* Stretched Out on Amethysts (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2010)
* Invention of the Wheel (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2010)
* Chants for the Beauty Feast (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2011)
* In Constant Incandescence (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2011)
* Holiday from the Perfect Crime (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2011)
* The Caged Bear Spies the Angel (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2011)
* The Puzzle (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2011)
* Ramadan is Burnished Sunlight (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2011)
* Ala-udeen & The Magic Lamp (with illustrations by the author) (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2011)
* The Crown of Creation (with illustrations by the author) (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2012)
* Blood Songs (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2012), 2013 American Book Award
* Down at the Deep End The Ecstatic Exchange, 2012)
* Next Life (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2013)
* A Hundred Little 3D Pictures (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2013)
* Miracle Songs for the Millennium (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2014)
* He Comes Running, A Turkish Sojourn, and Myths We Never Knew (The Ecstatic Exchange, 2014)

### Theatrical works
#### The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company

* The Walls are Running Blood (1968)
* Bliss Apocalypse (1970)
* Bliss Apocalypse Contemporaries: 28 New American Poets (Viking Press, New York 1972)

#### Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship plays

* Tayyad Sultan (1994)
* Mr Richman and The Shaykh (1995)
* The City of Sokku (1996)
* Meeting in Mecca (1997)

#### The Floating Lotus Magic Puppet Theater

* The Mystical Romance of Layla & Majnun (2000)

### Songs, musical texts, and libretti

* Rainforest [commissioned text], an oratorio by Henry Brant (1989)
* Pilgrimage [Memoirs of a Dying Parachutist], chamber piece for baritone and chamber orchestra by Roscoe Mitchell (1995)
* Links [Links], piece for sextet and baritone by Henry Threadgill (1999)
* A Piece of Coal [Piece of Coal], for piano and baritone by Stephen Dickman (2001)
* The Blind Beekeeper [The Blind Beekeeper], setting for piano and baritone by W. A. Mathieu (2003)
* From: A Hundred Little 3D Pictures, for piano and baritone, by J.B. Floyd (2003)
* In Crossing the Busy Street, for piano and baritone, by J.B. Floyd (2009)

### Commissioned works (poetry/prose)

* The Zen Rock Garden, A Way of Seeing with boxed miniature rock garden (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1992)
* Warrior Wisdom (Running Press, Philadelphia, 1993)
* The New York Ramayana —poetry narration (Lotus Music & Dance Studios, New York 2000)
* The Little Box of Zen (Larry Teacher Books, 2001)
* The Eagle Dance: A Tribute to the Mohawk High-Steel Workers —scenario, poetry text, direction and narration (Lotus Music & Dance Studios, New York 2001)

### Editorial works

* The Adam of Two Edens: The Poems of Mahmoud Darwish, as editor of various translators (Jusoor/Syracuse University Press 2001)
* State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish, editor of the translation by Munir Akash (2004)

### Anthologized works

* Mark in Time: Portraits & Poetry (Glide Publications, San Francisco 1971)
* Contemporaries: 28 New American Poets (The Viking Press 1972)
* San Francisco Oracle (Facsimile Edition 1995)
* Haight Ashbury in the 60's! (CD Rom, Rockument 1996)

### Works for children

* The Story of Noah, illustrations by Malika Moore (Iqra Books, Texas 1979)
* The Cage-bird's Escape, illustrations by the author (Zahra Publications, Texas 1981)
* Sulayman and the Throne of Bilqis, illustrations by Malika Moore (Zahra Publications, 1983)
* Abdallah Jones and the Disappearing-Dust Caper (The Ecstatic Exchange/Crescent Series, 2006)

## Critical mention

* Saturday Review of Books, Kenneth Rexroth on American Poetry (1965)
* Rolling Stone, "Floating Lotus" (San Francisco 1969)
* Festival—The Book of American Musical Celebrations, segment on “Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company.“ (Collier Books, New York 1970)
* Mug Shots: Who's Who in the New Earth, article and biography. (Meridian, World Publishing 1972)
* Literary San Francisco, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Nancy Peters. (City Lights Books/Harper & Row, San Francisco 1980)
* Saudi Gazette, "A Lone Voice," Julia Simpson’s article on the poet. (March 16, 1988)
* Ellipses Magazine, "Return of a Sufi." (Princeton, Vol V No 5 1996-97)
* The Temple, Karl Kempton’s review of The Ramadan Sonnets. (Vol 3 No 3 Summer 1999)