Lining Up

New York: Atheneum, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Signed by Howard on the title page. Very good with a crease along the right-edge of the front wrap. Square and firmly bound with clean pages. The bookplate of David Enderton Johnson is affixed inside the front wrap. The eighth collection of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Tantalizingly described to close the blurb on the back: "Throughout it is apparent that Howard's persistent concern with the contortions of character leads to a deeper obsession still: the truth which character merely masks, the mortalities which personal history tends to hide -- or are they immortalities?