City of Skypapers, a 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in poetry, records the continuity between the personal and the national, the present and the historic. Grounded in the Jewish calendar and landscapes of Tel Aviv, and leavened with self-deprecating humor, these poems examine what it took "to get here today"-and these todays add up into this rich, maximalist collection. Poems engage with the Arab-Israeli conflict, Gaza, and race in personal ways. Other poems document single motherhood and quotidian moments with clarity and power. "Time ripens" in Sulak's poems "on the vines and limbs, along the laundry line." A full life emerges in these pages, and we are enriched by having inhabited that life.
