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...history for Cinematic, secretary of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance and a research assistant for Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Tom Conley. Moreover, he is performing in a Russian play for the Slavic department, works in Winthrop House Library and tries to help out at Grolier Book Shop whenever possible...
Precisely 75 years ago, Gordon Cairnie opened the door to a little shop that would eventually become one of the country’s oldest poetry bookstores. Known affectionately as “the Grolier,” the hole-in-the-wall nestled behind the Harvard Book Store has served as a remarkable library and meeting place for three-quarters of a century. It became, over the years, stomping grounds for the likes of T.S. Eliot ’10, e.e. cummings ’15 and Allen Ginsburg, as well as generations of Advocate editors and Helen Vendler...
Even the future proprietor, Louisa Solano, who worked at the Grolier for many years before Gordon’s death, felt awkward in the store. Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky recalled a similar experience onstage: “I used to hate to go into the place—it was scary. But I had to go in there because it had all the books I wanted...
...birthday celebration, Robert Creeley explained how, delighted by having discovered the Grolier, he expected poetry bookshops to pop up all over the country. But as you might have guessed, the veneration of poetry and poets is not a particularly profitable venture; it is more serious than that. “It is a very precarious business, but I’m here,” Solano told Bob Edwards of National Public Radio, the other morning. “I’m here,” she said again, as if to reassure herself. Her voice, coming distant...
...Grolier is at once a splendid monument to poetry, an important part of Harvard history and a place of preservation for elusive collections and rare editions that would otherwise go unfound. But most of all, the Grolier is a community of writers and readers which has welcomed generations of Harvard students into its close circle in a way that even its looming neighbor, the Harvard Book Store, never will. As temporary residents of Cambridge, as students and as readers, we would do well to show support for such places; the services they provide are invaluable...