Some Sort of Chaos: Poems 2017-2026

By Joseph Adam Lee

Some Sort of Chaos is a portrait of a man wrestling with meaning in an age of performance.

Written across a decade of transition-from the feverish nights of New York City to the quiet reckoning of age-Joseph Adam Lee's second poetry collection burns with defiance, reflection, and grace.

These poems live among the fantastic dreams of desire, where darkness collides with doubt and ambition turns to exile. They capture the tension between decay and renewal, rebellion and surrender, love and the exhaustion that follows. Each piece is a confession in motion-raw, unfiltered, and electric with self-awareness.

Some Sort of Chaos speaks to those restless with ordinary life-anyone who's felt big love, failed too often, or burned too brightly to be contained. It stands as a testament to contradiction, creation, and the courage to endure.

For readers drawn to the existential intimacy of Ocean Vuong, the brutal clarity of Charles Bukowski, and the fearless voice of Rupi Kaur, this book doesn't offer peace or closure-it offers proof that art can still feel alive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946673447
• ISBN13: 9781946673442
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Red Fox Runs Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"