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Visit Daniel Abd al Hayy Moore's Website

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore was born in 1940, in Oakland, California, and his first book of poems, "Dawn Visions," was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books in 1964. He created and directed the theater company, "The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company" in the late 1960s in Berkeley, with two major ritual theater productions against the war, "The Walls Are Running Blood," and "Bliss Apocalypse." His second book of poetry, "Burnt Heart/Ode to the War Dead," 1972, was also published by City Lights.

In 1970 he became a Sufi Muslim and lived and traveled throughout Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria, landing in California in the 80s, publishing poetry chapbooks, "The Desert is the Only Way Out," and "Chronicles of Akhira," with his own Zilzal Press. He moved with his family to Philadelphia in 1990, and in 1996 published "The Ramadan Sonnets,Åh (City Lights,) and in 2001, "The Blind Beekeeper," (Syracuse University Press).

Presently he is editing 51 manuscripts of poetry. He says: "For me the province of poetry is a private ecstasy made public, and the social role of the poet is to display moments of shared universal epiphanies capable of healing our sense of mortal estrangement—from ourselves, from each other, from our source, from our destiny, from The Divine."

Visit his website: "The Ecstatic Exchange," that presents his life work in poetry, theater, drawings and collages: www.danielmoorepoetry.com.

	Daniel Abd al-Hayy Moore
	Visit Daniel Abd al Hayy Moore's Website Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore was born in 1940, in Oakland, California, and his first book of poems, "Dawn Visions," was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books in 1964. He created and directed the theater company, "The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company" in the late 1960s in Berkeley, with two major ritual theater productions against the war, "The Walls Are Running Blood," and "Bliss Apocalypse." His second book of poetry, "Burnt Heart/Ode to the War Dead," 1972, was also published by City Lights. In 1970 he became a Sufi Muslim and lived and traveled throughout Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria, landing in California in the 80s, publishing poetry chapbooks, "The Desert is the Only Way Out," and "Chronicles of Akhira," with his own Zilzal Press. He moved with his family to Philadelphia in 1990, and in 1996 published "The Ramadan Sonnets,Åh (City Lights,) and in 2001, "The Blind Beekeeper," (Syracuse University Press). Presently he is editing 51 manuscripts of poetry. He says: "For me the province of poetry is a private ecstasy made public, and the social role of the poet is to display moments of shared universal epiphanies capable of healing our sense of mortal estrangement—from ourselves, from each other, from our source, from our destiny, from The Divine." Visit his website: "The Ecstatic Exchange," that presents his life work in poetry, theater, drawings and collages: www.danielmoorepoetry.com. Some Work: The Procedure of Apprehension and Vanishing Away Golden Bees Complications