{"product_id":"mission-creep-9781552453193","title":"Mission Creep","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joshua Trotter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMission Creep \u003c\/i\u003ebegan as reworkings of the CIA's \u003ci\u003eHuman Resources Exploitation Training Manual\u003c\/i\u003e. Attempts to torture the text itself--obeying literary constraints, employing audio editing tools, and displacing it with other voices, including Hannah Arendt's and Evel Knievel's--reveal convoluted narratives, transmissions that contemplate whether torture provides useful information. At once a fugue and an absurdist comedy, info-overload and pure tone, \u003ci\u003eMission Creep \u003c\/i\u003ecomes on with the fire of apocalyptic prophecy and melts on the tongue like the last snowflake of winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Trotter \u003c\/b\u003elives in Montreal, Quebec. His first book, \u003ci\u003eAll This Could Be Yours\u003c\/i\u003e, was one of the \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e's top ten poetry books of 2010.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999618252951,"sku":"9781552453193","price":861.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781552453193.webp?v=1783601227","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mission-creep-9781552453193","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}