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When Ifeanyi A. Menkiti, a professor at Wellesley College, offered to buy the store from Solano, she was thrilled to have someone carry on the store’s legacy...
...Louisa Solano first walked into a dusty Grolier Poetry Shop, nestled on tree-lined Plympton Street, when she was 15 years old. Used books were piled on a couch, along with the store owner’s mail. Despite the disarray, she immediately fell in love with the shop...
After owning the store for 31 years, Solano sold the poetry shop on Friday to a philosophy professor at Wellesley College...
During her career, Solano said she turned a gathering place for poets and college students into a viable bookstore that now has over 15,000 poetry titles...
During the past year, Solano realized that she could not go on as the single owner and manager of the store. Because of her fragile health, Solano was only able to keep the shop open for about four out of the past 12 months, she said...