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COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Going Nowhere Fast -- Footprints -- "Consciousness, -- Magic Tape -- The Sock Mystery -- Stomach Song -- After Losing a Front Tooth -- A Freshly Sown Potato Field -- "One Is for Sorrow" -- To the God We Have Demeaned for So Long -- Chemistry -- Parenting Now -- To My Mother -- The Dust Gatherers -- Aceldama -- Diagnoses -- The Jar of Effulgence -- A Travel Brochure Headline -- Unheard Music -- The Day before Our Dog, Footer, Goes to the Vet -- Epitaph for Everyone -- Elegy for Somebody with Alzheimer's -- A Routine Cleaning -- American Wake -- To Those Who Stayed -- Birthdays -- Blues -- The Slow Learner -- Attachment -- Pearl -- Inkwells -- News Report of Collateral Damage -- While Teaching W. B. Yeats -- Idlestop -- ECNALUBMA -- A black-winged damselfly, -- -- Esperanto -- The Moon on New-Fallen Snow -- Smoke -- After a Snowfall in Burlington, Vermont -- How the Universe Began, a Child's Story -- The Shaving Equation -- For the Record -- The Professor of Forgetting -- half title -- the professor of forgetting -- Pub -- Ded -- contents -- Acknowledgments -- Going Nowhere Fast -- Footprints -- Consciousness -- Magic Tape -- The Sock Mystery -- Stomach Song -- After Losing a Front Tooth -- A Freshly Sown Potato Field -- "One Is for Sorrow" -- To the God We Have -- Chemistry -- Parenting Now -- To My Mother -- The Dust Gatherers -- Aceldama -- Diagnoses -- The Jar of Effulgence -- A Travel Brochure Headline -- Unheard Music -- The Day before Our Dog, Footer, -- Epitaph for Everyone -- Elegy for Somebody with Alzheimer's -- A Routine Cleaning -- American Wake -- To Those Who Stayed -- Blues -- The Slow Learner -- Attachment -- Pearl -- Inkwells -- News Report of Collateral Damage -- While Teaching W. B. Yeats -- Idlestop -- ECNALUBMA -- A black-winged damselfly, -- -- The Moon on New-Fallen Snow -- Smoke. "The Professor of Forgetting, a new collection from the celebrated Irish poet Greg Delanty, dwells on a stock concern of life: time, as well as questioning if time actually exists. The book starts with a meditation titled "The Now Cruz" and then considers various stages of what it means to be human, complete with musings on what might happen after we die. In accordance with the subject matter, the poems themselves vary widely in form and style. Coming from someone who has been writing poetry for close to half a century, these poems cover the main preoccupations of life: love, marriage, the death of loved ones (including his dog), being an emigrant/immigrant, home, the natural world, how we effect our world, war, creation, and much else that falls through the cracks of daily life. The book concludes with a rueful summation of the author's life in the title poem, "The Professor of Forgetting." Though dealing with some of life's heaviest and hardest experiences, Delanty's new book is buoyant with love, wonder, playfulness, hope, humor, and skill"--
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