Martyn Crucefix is a poet who believes part of his vocation is to translate and keep alive in English some of the world’s greatest literary and spiritual works. He has recently translated Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and his Sonnets to Orpheus. Now he has completed his version of one of the principal works of Taoism, the Dao de Jing, derived from the teaching of the Chinese sage Laozi.
Martyn Crucefix writes:
“I came to the Dao de Jing after translating the German poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Perhaps more importantly, it was as a long-standing teacher that I read Laozi’s ...
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