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Veronica Sanitate's The Palindrome of the Sun begins in Florence, in the Baptistery, where generations came to be christened before entering the Duomo. On its floor, a black-and-white zodiac mosaic served as a living clock, the sun itself marking the year's arc. Solstice emerges as a turning point, the fading palindrome carved around the sun evoking circularity, return, and the persistence of time. The words are barely legible, their translation lost, but Sanitate revives them, rendering the sun's blaze as it spins constellations and traces the arc of human experience. These meditations move between art and history, science and myth, tracing cycles of life, the cosmos, and what endures. In The Palindrome of the Sun, Florence becomes both mirror and doorway; the familiar world is refracted into patterns of continuity, reflection, and return, and the reader is left to consider the measure of time, the turning of seasons, and our place within it.

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Veronica Sanitate is the author of The Palindrome of the Sun (Finishing Line Press, 2026) and holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Program. Her poetry manuscript Sun Standing Still was shortlisted for the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Sanitate serves as Vice President of Ocean Organics Corp. and is a founding director of both the Michigan Collaborative for Mindfulness in Education and Groundcover News, a street newspaper focused on homelessness solutions. The seventh child of Italian immigrants, she was born and raised in Detroit and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband.

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