GARLAND Issue 4

Guest editor: Connor Frew Call: the body and body and body is a call to look at the body and its edges, refuse, differences, expansions, failures, and transformations as poetic tools. Language is the material of the commons, erupting from the body to create visual, spatial, and sonic disturbance; building our communities and publics and filling them with life. Right now the fascist allergy to life feels acutely and disgustingly present, and the ruling class is growing more emboldened to weaponize the state's instruments of violence to shrink the horizon of what is possible. Fascists understand the body as a powerful engine of subjectivity, and poetry and language as the sinew which binds together our social space, which is why they police them both with such ferocity. For this issue of GARLAND, I am looking for work which might approach the body from the *outside* (the subjectivities which make the quilted collective, are responsible for the production of meaningful life, which chafe a