“Read this book forward, straight through; read it backward, one poem at a time. Take out the pages and put them back in a different order, or, if you like your books intact, open Thom Tammaro’s 23 Poems randomly again and again, because that’s what the poet desires: he wants you to know there’s no right or wrong way to read these poems—just let them dance, and you discover a wondrous constellation every time you look up.”