{"product_id":"mission-creep-paperback-2","title":"Mission Creep - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Trotter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Trotter: Joshua Trotter lives in Montreal. His work has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eJailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Canadian Poetry in English\u003c\/i\u003e. His first book, \u003ci\u003eAll This Could Be Yours\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by the \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the top 10 poetry books of 2010. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353911705849,"sku":"9781552453193","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VOKUpeeSrx9781552453193_c1565122-a9d8-4be0-a15a-f07584e980f5.webp?v=1769828778","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/mission-creep-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}