The Professor of Forgetting James H. Cassedy more than a hundred years

more than a hundred years before the American Revolution

a war right off its shore

the Mashantucket Pequot reservation in Connecticut

From life's minutiae to the grand vistas of the Himalayas Jen's words fill me with a longing to return

plastic surgeons

The Professor of Forgetting James H. Cassedy more than a hundred yearsThe Professor of Forgetting, a new collection from the acclaimed Irish poet Greg Delanty, swings back and forth on the fulcrum of what we call "now" and confronts our notion of how time passes. From the very first poem, "Going Nowhere Fast," which ponders whether we are now here or going nowhere, to the final selection, from which the book takes its self reflective title, these exuberant poems chronicle what it means to be human with joy, pathos,