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Dead Newark Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg Gets ‘Reborn’
Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg—born in 1926 Newark, raised in Paterson, died in 1997 New York City at 70—is getting “Reborn” via the November 3 re-release of his 1989 Hal Wilner-produced ‘The Lion For Real,’ now dubbed ‘The Lion For Real, Re-Born’ (Shimmy Disc/Joyful Noise), a double-vinyl doozy of his incendiary words, accompanied by music.