Daniel Moore (poet)
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore 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. He then created works such as Ramadan Sonnets and The Blind Beekeeper, 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 This Body of Black Light Burnt Heart The Desert is the Only Way Out The Chronicles of Akhira Halley's Comet Atomic Dance Awake As Never Before The Quest for Beauty —illustrated by Sara Steele Roses, A Selection of Poems Maulood, a poem in praise of The Prophet Muhammad Mecca/Medina Time-Warp The Ramadan Sonnets The Blind Beekeeper The Blind Beekeeper, Poems Mars & Beyond Salt Prayers Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi Ramadan Sonnets Psalms for the Brokenhearted I Imagine a Lion Coattails of the Saint Love is a Letter Burning in a High Wind Abdallah Jones and the Disappearing-Dust Caper The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light/Ninety-Nine Ghazals Written in English Underwater Galaxies The Music Space Cooked Oranges Through Rose Colored Glasses Like When You Wave at a Train and the Train Hoots Back at You/Farid's Book In the Realm of Neither The Fire Eater's Lunchbreak Millennial Prognostications You Open a Door and It's a Starry Night Where Death Goes Shaking the Quicksilver Pool The Perfect Orchestra Sparrow on the Prophet's Tomb A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time Stretched Out on Amethysts Invention of the Wheel Chants for the Beauty Feast In Constant Incandescence Holiday from the Perfect Crime The Caged Bear Spies the Angel The Puzzle Ramadan is Burnished Sunlight Ala-udeen & The Magic Lamp The Crown of Creation Blood Songs, 2013 American Book AwardDown at the Deep End The Ecstatic Exchange, 2012)Next Life A Hundred Little 3D Pictures Miracle Songs for the Millennium He Comes Running, A Turkish Sojourn, and ''Myths We Never Knew''Theatrical works
The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company
The Walls are Running Blood Bliss Apocalypse Bliss Apocalypse Contemporaries: 28 New American PoetsBawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship plays
Tayyad Sultan Mr Richman and The Shaykh The City of Sokku- ''Meeting in Mecca''
The Floating Lotus Magic Puppet Theater
- ''The Mystical Romance of Layla & Majnun''
Songs, musical texts, and libretti
Rainforest, an oratorio by Henry Brant Pilgrimage, chamber piece for baritone and chamber orchestra by Roscoe Mitchell Links, piece for sextet and baritone by Henry Threadgill A Piece of Coal, for piano and baritone by Stephen Dickman The Blind Beekeeper, setting for piano and baritone by W. A. Mathieu From: A Hundred Little 3D Pictures, for piano and baritone, by J.B. Floyd In Crossing the Busy Street, for piano and baritone, by J.B. FloydCommissioned works (poetry/prose)
The Zen Rock Garden, A Way of Seeing with boxed miniature rock garden Warrior Wisdom The New York Ramayana —poetry narration The Little Box of Zen The Eagle Dance: A Tribute to the Mohawk High-Steel Workers —scenario, poetry text, direction and narrationEditorial works
The Adam of Two Edens: The Poems of Mahmoud Darwish, as editor of various translators State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish, editor of the translation by Munir AkashAnthologized works
Mark in Time: Portraits & Poetry Contemporaries: 28 New American Poets San Francisco Oracle- ''Haight Ashbury in the 60's!''
Works for children
The Story of Noah, illustrations by Malika Moore The Cage-bird's Escape, illustrations by the author Sulayman and the Throne of Bilqis, illustrations by Malika Moore- ''Abdallah Jones and the Disappearing-Dust Caper''