Introduction -- Chronology of JoyDavidman's life (1915-1960) -- Early writings (1929-1938) -- Letter to a comrade (1938) -- Communist writer and reviewer (1938-1945) -- Into the lion's den: JoyDavidman and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer (1939) -- Other published poems (1938-1945) -- Anya (1940) -- Disillusionment to faith: Weepingbay (1950) and Smoke on the mountain (1955) -- A naked tree: JoyDavidman's love sonnets to C. S. Lewis (1952-1956) -- Last things (1954-1960)