"A complex and many-faceted life is given its due in this photographic portrait of Allen Ginsberg's life as poet, spiritualist, friend, lover, performer, teacher, and lover of good times, from 1980 through 1997. The Late Great Allen Ginsberg is a recollection of America's most important post-World War II poet, informed by Ginsberg's sensitivity, his humanitarianism, and his love of life."--BOOK JACKET.