Download or read book Before Animals Talked and Other Poems written by Ken Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is his second collection of poems. The poems are never about something else. They are what they are. In the words of James Joyce, each poem is "the transient constantly displaced, forever disappearing thing itself."