Word: solano
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Solano draws her clientele mainly from students at Brandeis, Bentley, Lesley, Harvard and MIT, many of whom want books for advanced courses in poetry and literature...
...Solano says her favorite customers are the true poetry readers, old and new. One of her favorite parts of her job is “getting someone who’s never read poetry to start...
...Solano was a 15-year-old high school student when she first entered Grolier, but she was already a poetry lover. Now she helps customers locate specific anthologies and tries to find concrete solutions to their often abstract questions...
...Solano, who is characteristically over-protective of her books, prohibits customers from bringing coffee near them and winces when they chew gum in the store. She has become such a celebrity in poetry circles that she says some people come into the store with obscure requests just to engage her in debate or conversation about poetry...
...pauses in her reminiscences when a couple of young customers wanders into the Grolier, “just browsing.” Though hoping they would actually make purchases at the end of the visit, Solano invites them to help themselves to a pile of old literary magazines...