Daniel Moore (poet)

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Moore in 1968 with the Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company
Born	Daniel Moore (1940-07-30)July 30, 1940 Oakland, California
Died	April 18, 2016(2016-04-18) (aged 75) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Resting place	Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Cemetery, East Fallowfield, Pennsylvania

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)

See also

• Nooruddeen Durkee
• Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
• Hamza Yusuf
• List of Sufis

External links

• Official website
• EcstaticXchange, Moore's poetry site (includes essays, blog, YouTube video and spoken word recordings