Daniel Moore (poet)

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 Award
• Down 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 Poets

  Bawa 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. Floyd

  Commissioned 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 narration

  Editorial 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 Akash

  Anthologized 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

  Critical mention

• Saturday Review of Books, Kenneth Rexroth on American Poetry
• Rolling Stone, "Floating Lotus"
• Festival—The Book of American Musical Celebrations, segment on “Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company.“
• Mug Shots: Who's Who in the New Earth, article and biography.
• Literary San Francisco, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Nancy Peters.
• Saudi Gazette, "A Lone Voice," Julia Simpson’s article on the poet.
• Ellipses Magazine, "Return of a Sufi."
• The Temple, Karl Kempton’s review of The Ramadan Sonnets.