A dramatic portrait of America's iconoclastic poet, The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg reveals in detail the man and artist through the eyes and in the voice of a Ginsberg intimate, a fellow poet and admirer, who shared the outlook and the time with one of America's most outspoken and controversial literary figures. Edward Sanders' poem leads us through history as witnessed and created by Ginsberg, introducing us to friend and foe, the luminaries and ordinary folk that populated Ginsberg's teeming world.