The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry
The blurb on the back cover of this collection declares thatMagnetic  Poetry"has inspired a new nation of poets."  If it's an exaggeration, it's  not much of one.  Former U.S. poet laureateRobert Hassdescribes the  craze of refrigerator-magnet composition as a game of "one-man Scrabble and the  prize is insight." A lot of the beauty in these poems comes from their very  amateurishness, remembering the relationship betweenamateurandamor.  Here's a terrific poem in that spirit, from Annamarie Zmolek, age 14: "I see a  garden / its petals are tiny and red / a light rain falls / down from the sky / and cools its  lovely head."