title: The Prints of Vija Celmins
author:  Samantha Rippner 
description: Samantha Rippner is Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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  in itself a little world of heartbreak and joy,
  
  
  I dedicate to Nancy Deming-Williams,
  
  
  with much, much love.
  
  
  If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this
  
  
  book may have been stolen properly and reported as "unsold and destroyed"
  
  
  to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has re-
  
  
  ceived any payment for this "stripped book."
  
  
  First Paperback Printing, April 1994
  
  
  19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10
  
  
  DAW TRADEMARK REGISTERED
  
  
  U. S. PAT OFF. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES
  
  
  ——MARC A REGISTRADA.
  
  
  HECHO EN U.S.A.
  
  
  PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
  
  
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  And death shall have no dominion.
  
  
  Dead men naked they shall be one
  
  
  With the man in the wind and the west moon;
  
  
  When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones
  
  
  gone
  
  
  They shall have stars at elbow 