Product: A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems
Displays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius

 Although best known as C. S. Lewis&apos;s wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime.

 The first comprehensive collection of Davidman&apos;s poetry, A Naked Tree includes the poems that originally appeared in her Letter to a Comrade (1938), forty other published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished poems that came to light in a remarkable 2010 discovery.

 Of special interest is Davidman&apos;s sequence of forty-five love sonnets to C. S. Lewis, which offer stunning evidence of her spiritual struggles with regard to her feelings for Lewis, her sense of God&apos;s working in her lonely life, and her mounting frustration with Lewis for keeping her at arm&apos;s length emotionally and physically.

 Readers of these Davidman poems -- arranged chronologically by Don King -- will discover three recurring, overarching themes: God, death, and immortality; politics, including capitalism and communism; and (the most by far) romantic, erotic love. This volume marks Joy Davidman as a figure to be reckoned with in the landscape of twentieth-century American poetry.

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