THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2004 by Philip Levine

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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My thanks to the editors of the following publications in which these poems first appeared:
ATLANTIC MONTHLY: “The Lesson”
BLACKBIRD: “Breakfasts with Joachim”
DOUBLETAKE: “The Esquire” & “The Invention of the Fado”
FIELD: “My Given Name”
FIRST OF THE MONTH: “On 52nd Street”
FIVE POINTS: “Praise,” “My Brother, Antonio, the Baker,” & “On a Photograph of Simon Karaday”
GEORGIA REVIEW: “Dust,” “Naming,” & “The Genius”
IMAGE: “When the Shift Was Over”
KENYON REVIEW: “My Father in the Wind”
NEW YORKER: “Gospel,” “The Two,” “A View of Home,” “Home for the Holidays,” “For a Duro,” & “Yenkl”
POETRY: “Storms,” “Keats in California,” “1/1/2000,” & “Call It Music”
SLATE: “The West Wind”
SOUTHERN REVIEW: “Houses in Order”
THIRD COAST: “Dutch Treat”
YALE REVIEW: “The Great Truth,” “Moradian,” & “Today and Two Thousand Years from Now”

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levine, Philip [date]
Breath : poems / by Philip Levine.— 1st ed.
p.    cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-51490-5
I. Title.
PS3562.E9B73 2004
811’.54—dc22        2004040839

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