The poet William Blake once wrote, “All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.” Elusive, ingenuous, acerbic and sophisticated by turns, Bettina Klix, like Blake, cleanses our perception—her Rapture of the Depths shows us over and over again, in manifold ways, that we must always change our metaphysics. She helps us to our own experience. This is just one liberation, one generosity, among the many that her wonderfully varied writing embodies.

Bettina Klix has always lived in Berlin, Germany. She studied German letters and social education. She has published short stories, as well as articles and essays on art and film. Her books include Tiefenrausch (Suhrkamp, 1986), Sehen Sprechen Gehen (Suhrkamp, 1993), Willkommen im Wunderland (with photos by Christine Kriegerowski, published by allgirls Gallerie, Berlin, 2008), and Verlorene Söhne, Töchter, Väter. Über Paul Schrader, (Verbrecher, 2010).

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Eric Miller is a professor of 18th-century literature at the University of Victoria and a poetry editor at The Malahat Review, having studied at universities in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. He is a polymath, with fluency in a number of languages, a thorough knowledge of Latin and classical history, a detailed knowledge of the biological science of birds, and an astonishing breadth of reading in a variety of literary traditions. He is a also recipient of The Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets Prize from the University of Virginia.

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