/lit/ - Literature

Anyone else appreciate Joanna Newsom's lyrics? She has this uncanny voice and excellent kind of neo-folk harp style that are interesting enough in their own right, but god damn she's really a wonderful poet. Here's the opening to her song 'Sapokanikan':

>The cause is Ozymandian
>The map of Sapokanikan
>Is sanded and bevelled
>The land lone and levelled
>By some unrecorded and powerful hand

It just gets better from there, and this is a song about John Purroy Mitchel, some random politician from the Tammany hall era of New York politics. She's also a vivid and imaginative storyteller. Here's an excerpt from 'Waltz of the 101st Lightborne' which is about an army that goes back in time to fight itself:

>I had a dream that I walked in the garden
>Of Chabot, and those telescope ruins
>It was there that I called to my true love
>Who was pale as millennial moons
>Honey, where did you come by that wound?

>When I woke, he was gone
>And the War had begun
>In eternal return and repeat
>Calling, Where in the hell are the rest of your fellow
>One Hundred-One Lightborne Elite?

Such an inventive artist. Any of you plebs ever listened to her stuff?