Celestial Bodies / Earthbound Wounds by Sadee Bee

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Paperback, 30 coated pages, full color interior designs

Cover Design by Courtney Leigh

This constellation of prose poems moves through galaxies both celestial & interior. Guided by the gods of the Greek pantheon & the wandering comets & planets that bear their names, the speaker drifts between myth & memory, body & starfield. Each poem bends language into something luminous & raw, passionate & tender.

In Celestial Bodies / Earthbound Wounds, Sadee Bee asks what it means to be human & what it means to recoil from that inheritance. Moving through trauma, familial fracture, gender, & sexuality, the voice of these poems ache toward freedom in a world that rarely grants it to Queer, Black femmes. The cosmos becomes both refuge & reckoning, a place to reimagine the self beyond gravity’s pull.

Dreamlike & deliberate, intimate & expansive, this imagistic collection charts a journey through pain & into the expanse of possibility where myth is a map, & becoming is its own revolution.

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Paperback, 30 coated pages, full color interior designs

Cover Design by Courtney Leigh

This constellation of prose poems moves through galaxies both celestial & interior. Guided by the gods of the Greek pantheon & the wandering comets & planets that bear their names, the speaker drifts between myth & memory, body & starfield. Each poem bends language into something luminous & raw, passionate & tender.

In Celestial Bodies / Earthbound Wounds, Sadee Bee asks what it means to be human & what it means to recoil from that inheritance. Moving through trauma, familial fracture, gender, & sexuality, the voice of these poems ache toward freedom in a world that rarely grants it to Queer, Black femmes. The cosmos becomes both refuge & reckoning, a place to reimagine the self beyond gravity’s pull.

Dreamlike & deliberate, intimate & expansive, this imagistic collection charts a journey through pain & into the expanse of possibility where myth is a map, & becoming is its own revolution.

Paperback (Matte Cover with color pages)

This paperback edition presents the celestial chapbook in a tactile, collectible format, featuring vibrant full-color designs woven throughout the pages. The visual elements echo the book’s cosmic themes, reflecting the movement, mystery, & atmosphere of the speaker through the poems themselves. Together, text & imagery create an immersive reading experience that invites the reader into a luminous, otherworldly landscape.

*All pre-orders placed from March & April will arrive as a special bundled package: the book wrapped in black kraft paper, paired with a blue beeswax taper candle & an incense stick of Fig, Bergamot, & White Tea, inspired by the book’s atmosphere. Add the corresponding candle to your order to complete the immersive reading ritual.

“Celestial Body” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon

Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.

Poured as an offering to the universal body, this candle is a slow-burning invocation, simultaneously earthbound & celestial. Threads of saffron rise first, warm & luminous, softened by golden honey sacred to the gods. Violet blooms at the heart, like a night garden orbiting its own gravity. Cedarwood & palo santo anchor the flame in something ancient & ritualistic, while amber & smoke unfurl, resinous & shadowed in the background.

Adorned with blue glitter “stardust,” the surface shimmers as it melts, echoing the unnamed traveler who moves through galaxies & selves in tandem.

Scent Notes:Saffron. Honey. Violet. Cedarwood. Palo Santo. Amber. Smoke.
Adorned with Stardust

QUOTES ABOUT THE BOOK:

Invoking an ethereal cosmogony, Sadee's words wander the wide universe, weaving a rich tapestry of rebirth and wonder. Dreamlike beauty emerges from the coldness of space. Flights of fancy, avenging anger, and morbid memory clash brilliantly in an otherwordly journey like no other. Its unbelievably powerful imagery and crescendos of emotion will linger with you long after your eyes leave the page. A vibrant mythology of new beginnings.

—Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus

Celestial Bodies | Earthbound Wounds vibrates with the pulse of the universe as the unnamed speaker of Sadee Bee’s prose poems traverses galaxies and selves in tandem. This speaker imagines themself as a sort of modern, queer Little Prince, encountering not just otherworldly figures and landscapes, but the lessons they teach, on a fractured cosmic journey. Drawing on myth and memory, the chapbook at its core delves deeply into the remaking of self—how even something so nebulous can find meaning in form, “in love with [itself] once more.” For fans of Bee’s dreamy, imagistic work, this series is not to be missed.

—nat raum, editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press & author of journal of various worries