{"product_id":"9781552453193","title":"Mission Creep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMission Creep \u003c\/i\u003e began 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\u003e comes 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\u003e lives 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":"Default Title","offer_id":47035527266544,"sku":"9781552453193","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552453193_p0.jpg?v=1763751614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552453193","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}