TY - BOOK AU - Robertson,Robin TI - The long take or a way to lose more slowly SN - 9781509846887 U1 - 821 21 CY - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 KW - Film noir -- Poetry KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Poetry N2 - Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity and repair. We follow Walker through a sequence of poems as he moves through post-war American cities of New York ER -