This is Episode 101 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

Today's poem is "Anger" by Yusef Komunyakaa.

Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet and at the time of this podcast, in his 82nd year, is still teaching at New York University, where he is Professor of English.

He has published more than 15 collections of poetry and two collections of essays and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994.

Born James William Brown, he reclaimed the African name of his grandfather Komunyakaa.

This poem charts the role of anger, an emotion often seen as destructive, but here presented as something much more complex, as an essential creative force.

It encourages us, perhaps, not to quell our own anger, or to dismiss it in others, but to seek within it the seed of action and creativity.

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