/lit/ - Literature

How good are Joanna Newsom's lyrics compared to actual poetry?

Poetry like this?

This, classical music generally and maybe The Smiths are the only things I can think of off the top of my head where '/lit/-approved' might actually mean something
>>12553687
You're actually correct, lyrics can be great as the cherry on top but if that's all it's got going for it then that's not enough
>>12555210
>unlike whatever fast food Johnny eats
>'eats' is the verb
Retard

>But always up the mountainside you're clambering
>Groping blindly, hungry for anything
>Picking through your pocket linings, well, what is this?
>Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?
>I see the blossoms broke and wet after the rain
>Little sister, he will be back again
>I have washed a thousand spiders down the drain
>Spiders ghosts hang soaked and dangelin'
>Silently from all the blooming cherry trees
>In tiny nooses, safe from everyone
>Nothing but a nuisance gone now, dead and done
>Be a woman, be a woman
The best poetry of the past 50 years

What are some good essays/letters/diary books.

What is the literary equivalent of this album?