Inflammatory Writ by Joanna Newsom
Inflammatory Writ by Joanna Newsom

Inflammatory Writ

Joanna Newsom * Track #5 On The Milk-Eyed Mender

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Inflammatory Writ by Joanna Newsom

Release Date
Tue Mar 23 2004
Performed by
Joanna Newsom
Produced by
Noah Georgeson
Writed by
Joanna Newsom
About

Joanna writes about writer’s block, feeling inadequate in the eyes of her heroes, and trying desperately to live up to their legacy.

Inflammatory Writ Lyrics

Oh, where is your inflammatory writ?
Your text that would incite a light, "Be lit"?
Our music deserving devotion unswerving —
Cry "Do I deserve her?" with unflagging fervor
(Well, no we do not, if we cannot get over it)

But what's it mean
When suddenly we're spent?
Tell me true!
Ambition came and reared its head, and went
Far from you!
Even mollusks have weddings
Though solemn and leaden
But you dirge for the dead
And take no jam on your bread —
Just a supper of salt and a waltz
Through your empty bed

And all at once it came to me
And I wrote and hunched 'till four-thirty
But that vestal light
It burns out with the night
In spite of all the time that we spend on it:
On one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet!
While outside, the wild boars root
Without bending a bough underfoot —
O it breaks my heart; I don't know how they do it
So don't ask me!

And as for my inflammatory writ?
Well, I wrote it and I was not inflamed one bit
Advice from the master derailed that disaster;
He said "Hand that pen over to me, poetaster!"
While across the great plains
Keening lovely & awful
Ululate the lost Great American Novels —
An unlawful lot, left to stutter and freeze, floodlit
(But at least they didn't run
To their undying credit.)

Inflammatory Writ Q&A

Who wrote Inflammatory Writ's ?

Inflammatory Writ was written by Joanna Newsom.

Who produced Inflammatory Writ's ?

Inflammatory Writ was produced by Noah Georgeson.

When did Joanna Newsom release Inflammatory Writ?

Joanna Newsom released Inflammatory Writ on Tue Mar 23 2004.

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