The Puzzle / Poems

A grand outgoing, heading directly into the puzzlement, the puzzle, puzzling it all out... Poems of search and devotion to the One, through labyrinthine manifestations... self and its various sheddings.

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Publication Date: Oct 2, 2011
Language: English
Category: Poetry
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

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Poetry Sufi Poetry Islamic Poetry Devotional Poetry American Poetry

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About abdalhayy

Born in 1940 in Oakland, California, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore had his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964, and the second in 1972, Burnt Heart/Ode to the War Dead. He created and directed The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California in the late 60s, and presented two major productions, The Walls Are Running Blood, and Bliss Apocalypse. He became a Sufi Muslim in 1970, performed the Hajj in 1972, and has lived and traveled throughout Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria, landing in California and publishing The Desert is the Only Way Out, and Chronicles of Akhira in the early 80s (Zilzal Press). In 2011 he was a winner of the Nazim Hikmet Prize for Poetry. The Ecstatic Exchange Series is bringing out the extensive body of his works of poetry of which there are thirty-two books presently in print, as of August, 2011. www.ecstaticxchange.wordpress.com, www.danielmoorepoetry.com.

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