A Naked Tree: love sonnets to C.S. Lewis and other poemsJOY DAVIDMAN, EDITED BY DON W. KING JoyABIGAIL SANTAMARIA Two years ago, an extraordinary literary discovery was made in an Oxford attic. A box of papers left 50 years ­earlier by Joy Davidman turned out to include a cycle of sonnets so remarkable that the canon of twentieth-century women’s poetry may need revision. Davidman had been an important literary voice in 1930s America, receiving the Yale Younger Poets Prize and (jointly with Robert Frost) the Russell Loines Award. But her conversion from a vocal and passionate Communism to a quiet and tentative Christianity, and her eventual marriage to C.S. Lewis, stilled the urgency of her earlier “storm and stress”, and with it (we thought) her characteristic poet