Copies of Derek Updegraff’s chapbooks are still available for purchase.  The chapbooks are sold mostly at independent bookstores in California, but you may also purchase copies directly from the author.  The author sells the books as a set for $12.00 ($5.00 for each book and $2.00 for shipping costs).  Make checks out to “Derek Updegraff” and mail to:

Derek Updegraff / 107 Tate Hall / University of Missouri / Columbia, MO 65211

The publisher, Doom-Ah Books, no longer maintains a website, so this is the only way to obtain copies online.

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“With a sharp eye, keen wit, and well-honed sense of line, Derek Updegraff takes canny measure of his world’s serial appearances, setting to each an elegiac edge so as to duly honor every passing glance and glancing pass with lyric endurance.”

Scott Cairns
Author of Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected

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“Of his young generation, Derek Updegraff is the most completely skilled, versatile, and prolific practitioner of verse composed in the traditional metric forms of whom I am aware.  What’s more, the depth of his humanity, the sincerity of his loves and loyalties, are never sacrificed to the rigors of his forms.  He adds a sometimes gentle, sometimes robust sense of humor, parody, and satire.  There is no former student of mine of whom I am more proud than Derek, none of stronger character, none who has more thoroughly disciplined and sweetened his craft, none who has more independently gone his own aesthetic way without regard to prevailing fashions.  He is a poet of universals, of the timeless.  His time has come.”

Gerald Locklin

Author of Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems

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