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POETRY & ESSAYS

BOOK

Belladonna*, 2018

Landia excavates literal and figurative borderlands—redrawn boundaries, architectural palimpsests, underground transport systems—to reckon with the historical and cultural forces that shape our cities and our intimate lives.

In her impressive debut collection, Celina Su extends the possibilities of the poetic, bringing as much careful attention (and firsthand experience) to the concrete details of what she calls “prosaic subjection” as she does to the syntax and moods of poetic language... Landia brings together the freedom of the poetic imagination and the realities of state and corporate power, forcing us to re-think the borders of the literary and of the political.

—Dorothy Wang, author of Thinking Its Presence

A consummate wordsmith, Celina Su’s Landia... proves that mapping is as subjective as memory and language.

—Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout

Celina Su’s anti-imperial glossaries and roving dérives... evoke a radically different kind of civic engagement... “Between points A and B” obtains a lyric solidarity, and I thrill to that prospect.

—Cam Scott, author of Romans/ Snowmare

Celina Su’s Landia is worldly in the best sense: it is truly about the world. A capacious and much needed response to America’s rising xenophobia, Landia makes another argument as well: that we are all now displaced, uprooted by changing national borders, travel, migration, real estate markets and time itself... “I cannot differentiate the homage from the lament,” Su writes. Landia is both. You will finish it all the wiser.
—Alissa Quart, author of Monetized

Celina Su's Landia could be the future of English poetry.

—Tse Hao Guang, author of Deeds of Light

In the dream-real spaces of “succulent mines,” words travel, dart, bleed, and hide like refugees, like aid workers, like artists, like animals, like exiles, like warriors. The unsettled unsettles everywhere. And yet is seen, known, made viscerally apparent in Celina Su’s astonishing poems.
—Cindi Katz, author of Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives

SELECTED ESSAYS & STORIES

A Protective Archipelago: A Covid-19 Correspondence. With Wah-Ming Chang. Brooklyn Rail.

Small Talk. Poetry Foundation Harriet Blog.

A Collage in Progress. Poetry Foundation Harriet Blog.

A Hand, A Question, and A Path of Desire. Poetry Foundation Harriet Blog.

To Take Lightly. Museum of Your Parents' Things.

Missing Persons. CultureStr/ke.

Holiday in Cambodia. n+1.

I am Your Electric Fan. XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics.

SELECTED POEMS

Letter-poems. With Sarah Riggs. Brooklyn Rail.

Lucid Dream. Evergreen Review.

How to Wean and Distancing 37. Action, Spectacle.

The Future is Estuary. With Wah-Ming Chang. Fuel on Water.

[ Interactive version ]

Chinatown Under Threat. The Believer.

JFK Airport. New York Times Magazine.

Terra Pericolosa. PoetryNow.

Tax Season. Brooklyn Poets.

The Following are Proposed Facticities. Poetry Project.

4 poems. Brooklyn Rail.

Route 1095. Boston Review.

22. Zócalo Public Square.

Excerpt from Notes on the Shape of Absence. Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets.

JFK Airport. The Margins.

Critical Care; In 2044, A Waning Moon; The 403 Is Not Verboten; This Augmented Fantasy of the Known. In Devouring the Green: Fear of a Human Planet: An Anthology of New Writing Paperback by Sam Witt (Editor), Christopher J. Arabadjis (Illustrator), and Debra Di Blasi.

Bloody Paper Pulp. Almost Five Quarterly.

Aubade: At the Bus Shelter. Sand, Issue 9.

Swami Youth League, March 1971. The Margins.

Una Abuelita Para Cada Plaza Pública. Edna.

Between the Chifa and the Red Lanterns. Drunken Boat, Volume 16.

Growing Watermelons. 580 Split, Issue 13.

Sleep-Deprived, Mobile My Socioeconomic; Governmentality. Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology.

We Shopped Sweat. Open City.

Means-Tested Manifesto. Truck.

5 poems. Action, Yes, Volume 1, Issue 14.

To Steal Oneself; I'm Stuck. Aufgabe, Issue 9.

Postcarded in Cuba; These Strengths and Difficulties. Sous Rature, 2ssue, Winter.