Poetry. Subversive, erotic, and sublime, POETRY FOR PLANES challenges the conventions of airplane reading. Family, faith, technology, celebrity--yes, they are here. But so too is sex as philanthropy, flight as weltschmerz, and grammar as the ultimate loneliness. In a world that often seems to have lost its affinity for wonder, POETRY FOR PLANES reminds us that our greatest sense is our sense of wordplay.

Mark Yakich is Professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans, Editor of New Orleans Review, and a poet and novelist. He is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (Penguin), The Making of Collateral Beauty, and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin). His most recent book is an unconventional guide to reading and writing poems: Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury).