My name is Spencer Cawein Pate, and this is a website for me to post essays about literature, music, and film. The header and background images are paintings by my favorite artist, the great Charley Harper, while the title is taken from the final lines of John Ashbery’s poem “The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers”:
And only in the light of lost words
Can we imagine our rewards
You can contact me at: spencercawein at gmail dot com
