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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...
...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 and small through the phone line on the air, seemed to underscore her strained efforts not to be elbowed...
...made a web of interconnecting lives come together,” Quinn said of Solano. “The filament was poetry...
...Louisa Solano bought the store in 1974 and was instrumental in opening up Grolier to a less intimidating, more democratic clientele...
...Solano preserved the store’s original purpose as a place that offered a selection of obscure and out-of-print volumes, as well as the most recent works. But during her years Grolier expanded into an important center for poetry, not just in Cambridge but in the country. For example, Solano runs a foundation that sponsors book signings, poetry workshops and an annual poetry festival and contest...