"a sense of the struggle between a new language and a debased older language"

On his blog at

http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-jacket-interview-writing-in.html

Jerome Rothenberg reposts his 2002 retrospect of his work along the borders between cultures and between historical eras. As a generalization about the arts and how they both reflect and change our ways of perceiving, this interview says some striking things.