In lieu of a fall 2018 issue, Seneca Review Books released its debut title, Erica Trabold's Five Plots, winner of the inaugural Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize.
Five Plots delves into notions of how we are shaped by the land every bit as much as we shape it. This is a book that eschews easy ways of understanding and experiencing the world by investigating place as a malleable psychological and phenomenological force.
"The late poet and essayist Deborah Tall revolutionized the literature of place by changing our
understanding of how potently we can be impacted by the conflagrations of landscape, family, and
memory. Now, Erica Trabold kick-starts a new book series named for Deborah Tall with a debut that
imaginatively probes its own part of the world through humor, history, speculation, and hurt. This
is a pinprick of a book with a very generous heart." —John D'Agata, book prize judge and author of
The Lifespan of a Fact and About a Mountain.
