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...teenager in the 1950s, Louisa Solano learned to tell time backwards at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. She read a clock reflected in the mirror of a barber shop across the street...
...stores and restaurants that the class of 1954 patronized, many have been replaced with more expensive establishments; only a handful of the originals remain, and two of them—Brine’s Sporting Goods and Grolier Poetry Book Shop—announced that they were closing this year...
...unfurl its tender petals again. But this frost is not the same frost that snaps at the ears of red-cheeked students; it is rather an icy Cantabrigian apathy that has gnawed upon many of the Square’s most august institutions. The dead flower is the Grolier Poetry Book Shop...
Unless a buyer is found, Grolier will close down soon after more than 75 years of continuous operation. During that period it provided more than poetry to the community; Grolier transformed itself from a bricks-and-mortar building into part of the soul and essence of the Cambridge neighborhood. Poets including e.e. cummings ’15, T.S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg were once frequent visitors. And so, when Grolier closes its doors for the last time, when the last slim volume passes over the counter, the entire city will be poorer...
...with Grolier, Harvard itself has a special duty. When a beloved pub closes, it is heart wrenching but divorced from the University’s core mission. Poems, far more than pubs, are central to Harvard’s hopes for the promotion of education and culture. The value of a poem cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Harvard needs poetry—the Square needs poetry—and in this particular case poetry needs Harvard. We strongly encourage Harvard to investigate how to guarantee that Grolier stay afloat. If Harvard...