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Fiction Literary

Rapture of the Depths

by (author) Bettina Klix

translated by Eric Miller

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Jun 2011
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897430101
    Publish Date
    Jun 2011
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

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.

About the authors

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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