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True Believer - Jeff Kass

By Jeff Kass

Release Date: 2025-03-25

Genre: Poetry

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"True Believer is Jeff Kass at his best: reflective and clobbery, nerdy and dynamic, witty and wise.ā€ā€”Adam Mansbach,  author of Go the F*ck to Sleep and The Golem of Brooklyn

In True Believer, Jeff Kass intertwines fiction with reality as he delves into the origins of the Marvel superheroes, explores how the Marvel saga informed his own worldview, and implores us all to continue to believe in the forces of good

Through lyric and narrative poems, formal and informal verse, and even a trio of limericks, Kassā€™s poems both retell classic comic book tales and recall his personal experiences being a True Believerā€”attending New York City Comic-Con with his childhood friends, wishing he could control the weather while coaching his sonā€™s baseball team, and growing up reading about the Jewishness of The Thing, the Golem-like member of The Fantastic Four, which impacted Kassā€™s understanding of his own identity.

An ode to what Stan Lee called his devoted readers, True Believer is a call to arms and an invitation to discover the heroic in ourselves. If we canā€™t be super-powered heroes, we can endeavor to be what those heroes embody: perseverance despite personal doubt, determination in the face of calamitous odds, and faith in the notion that humanity is worth saving.

True Believer - Jeff Kass

By Jeff Kass

Release Date: 2025-03-25

Genre: Poetry

(0 ratings)
Read Download
"True Believer is Jeff Kass at his best: reflective and clobbery, nerdy and dynamic, witty and wise.ā€ā€”Adam Mansbach,  author of Go the F*ck to Sleep and The Golem of Brooklyn

In True Believer, Jeff Kass intertwines fiction with reality as he delves into the origins of the Marvel superheroes, explores how the Marvel saga informed his own worldview, and implores us all to continue to believe in the forces of good

Through lyric and narrative poems, formal and informal verse, and even a trio of limericks, Kassā€™s poems both retell classic comic book tales and recall his personal experiences being a True Believerā€”attending New York City Comic-Con with his childhood friends, wishing he could control the weather while coaching his sonā€™s baseball team, and growing up reading about the Jewishness of The Thing, the Golem-like member of The Fantastic Four, which impacted Kassā€™s understanding of his own identity.

An ode to what Stan Lee called his devoted readers, True Believer is a call to arms and an invitation to discover the heroic in ourselves. If we canā€™t be super-powered heroes, we can endeavor to be what those heroes embody: perseverance despite personal doubt, determination in the face of calamitous odds, and faith in the notion that humanity is worth saving.

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