Address To The Smaller Animals Author:Robert Nichols Robert Nichols has been a poet, writer, landscape architect, and anti-war activist for many decades. In the 1960s Nichols co-founded the Judson Poets Theater off Washington Square, NYC. His books include Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (City Lights), Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai (New Directions), Address to the Smaller Animals... more »i> (for which this volume is the reprint), and In the Air (Johns Hopkins University Press). Robert Nichols makes no distinction between the literary and the political, as he and his wife, the late Grace Paley, were often quoted. This edition of Address to the Smaller Animals marks a long awaited triumph for readers, historians, and activists alike. I knew Bob s poems before I knew him. It was then important that I get to know the maker of the poems who I soon began to love.