Secular Pantheism

What the reviewers are saying about Matthew Hupert's latest full length collection:

[Matthew Hupert's] subject matter evokes a new look at contemporary masculinity.
Marge Gonzalez, author of Body in Space

There is a quality of knowing that is peculiar to an artist who is unapologetically native to New York City. A wry smirk and sidelong glance. The delicious treachery of a joke made at the moment of deepest passion which ruins everything. A deft turn of the parenthetical shoulders which allows a man to isolate the personal from the pandemonium in the middle of a crowded street. The ability to look up just at the moment you are ‘plopping your grumble down’ in a streetside cafe and see that you are surrounded by hope and possibility. Only a man-child of New York possesses the specific understanding -- visceral to the bowels -- that a penny dropped from the Empire State Building will ‘cut the air cleanly/like a poem by Basho’ before slamming through the breastbone of a man. Matthew Hupert’s got it all, and more. Open this book and enter a world where everything can change -- completely, in a New York minute -- and the affairs of the heart are eternally at the precipice of being.
George Wallace, writer in residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace

Matthew Hupert knows how to take a poem and carry the reader with rhythm, candor, and pace from title to closing line in a sort of peaceful yet thundering ride. Secular Pantheism is a crash course through musings and mantras on life, sex, loss, art, and reality. Hupert’s poetry doesn’t just flash scenes or sing woes— it takes you between the lines and splashes honesty in your face. This collection has staying power and you’ll find yourself eager to read it again and again.
Damian Rucci

At times eclectic, at others downright dense--in the best sense of the word, Matthew Hupert’s Secular Pantheism is one man’s examination into the bones of what exactly makes a great poem and all of the parts that collectively make up a flawed, yet, well lived life. This book is all about trying to make some sort of order out a beautiful chaos. Hupert is not alone in that and I guess that’s the whole point, offering a few words that can connect us all and that he does with ease.
John Dorsey, Author of Being the Fire

ISBN: 978-1-7339370-2-3