Daniel Chacón

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About me

Industry Arts
Occupation Professor
Location El Paso, United States
Introduction Author of five books of fiction, including "The Cholo Tree" (A YA novel), "Hotel Juárez, Stories, Rooms, and Loops," "Chicano Chicanery," and the novel "and the shadows took him," He is co-editor of "The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga and the editor of "A Jury of Trees," posthumous poems of Andrés Montoya . He co-hosts Words on a Wire. http://ktep.org/programs/words-wire
Interests Physcial cosmology, black holes, inflation theory, the speed of light, etymology, exegesis, Borges, Kafka, Toni Morrison, Alejandra Pizarnik, Andrés Montoya, José Antonio Burciaga, the Xican@ diaspora, Kabbalah, quantum mechanics as a metaphorical system, good wine, poetry, sublime moments
Favorite Movies Anything with good background music.
Favorite Music Anything beautiful, and some songs not so beautiful.
Favorite Books Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill, Jazz by Toni Morrison, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, The Zohar, the Book of Daniel, Parallel Universes by Michio Kaku, The Elegant Universe by Brian Green, Einstein’s Heroes by Robyn Arianhod, Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, This Many Miles from Desire by Lee Herrick, Skin Tax by Tim Z. Hernandez, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino, Residencia en la tierra by Neruda, El Hacedor by Borges, Todos los Fuegos los fuegos by Julio Cortázar, Les fluers du mal by Baudelaire, Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Swedenborg, The Star Bellied Sneetches by Dr. Suess