The Tariff of Touch

<p>From the acclaimed poet of <em>50 Love Poems</em> and <em>Territories of the Flesh</em> comes a piercingly relevant new collection that charts the human landscape of economic conflict. In <em>The Tariff of Touch</em> Angela Nancy masterfully translates the abstract high-stakes drama of the US-China trade war into an intimate visceral narrative of American life.</p><p>This is not a story of presidents or policies but of people. It is the silent calculation in a shopper's eyes as they return a staple to the grocery shelf. It is the stubborn silence of a Midwestern soybean field with no market for its harvest. It is the hollow echo of a factory gate closing for the last time. With her signature clarity and emotional precision Nancy exposes the quiet pervasive ways a global struggle becomes a personal one-measured in rising prices receding dreams and the fragile weight of a family budget.</p><p>Moving from the rusted-out factories of the heartland to the anxious aisles of big-box stores these poems form a powerful testament to resilience. <em>The Tariff of Touch</em> is an essential haunting ledger of our time proving that the true cost of a trade war is paid not in tariffs but in the quiet steadfast currency of the human spirit.</p>