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'' ommissioned 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)

References

External links

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Daniel
1940 births
20th-century American poets
Converts to Islam
American Sufis
2016 deaths
Muslim poets
Writers from Oakland, California
21st-century American poets
American Book Award winners